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Release Date:
23 marzo 2008 (UK) másPlot:
A Botswana woman starts up the country's first female-owned detective agency. Based on the novel by Alexander McCall Smith | add synopsisComentarios de los usuarios:
Fresh and likable másCast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Jill Scott | ... | Mma Ramotswe |
 | Anika Noni Rose | ... | Mma Makutsi |
| Lucian Msamati | ... | JLB Matekoni |
| Nikki Amuka-Bird | ... | Alice Busang (as Nikki Amuka Bird) |
| Desmond Dube | ... | BK |
| Tumisho Masha | ... | Lucky Sesana |
| Bongeka Mpongwana | ... | Happy Bapetsi |
 | David Oyelowo | ... | Kremlin Busang |
| John Kani | ... | Daddy Bapetsi |
| Vusi Kunene | ... | Doctor Gulubane |
| Harriet Lenabe | ... | Mma Notshi (as Harriet Manamela) |
| Colin Salmon | ... | Note Makoti |
| Idris Elba | ... | Charlie Gotso |
| Lindani Nkosi | ... | Hector Lepodise |
| Vasco Shoba | ... | Obed Ramotswe |
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The film's producers have signed a 10 year lease for the area at the foot of Kgale Hill, Gaborone, where they have built the fictional shopping center where Precious Ramotswe opens her storefront detective agency. máspreguntas frecuentes
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The late Anthony Minghella's early credits included writing several episodes of 'Inspector Morse', so there's a symmetry in the fact that his final film as a director was another story about a fictional detective, namely Alexander MacCall Smith's Precious Ramotse, the eponymous No.1 lady detective in Botswana. Now, I've read detective stories set in the third world that could have been set anywhere, but the charm of this story lies emphatically in its African flavour. Also a degree of its horror: the tale does not altogether shy away from some of the grimmer realities of contemporary African life, but sweetens them with the comforting idea that at least some of these problems could be resolved by a formidable middle aged woman short on sophistication but well-endowed with compassion and common sense. You could argue that this is a slightly patronising idea, although equally, you could argue that most British fictional detectives, from Miss Marple down to Morse himself, embody a certain archetypal Britishness just as clearly as Precious represents one idea of Africa. The gentle pacing and episodic construction means that it isn't exactly edge-of-your seat stuff; but its also fresh, diverting and oddly believable - and as such, a final feather in Minghella's cap.