I saw this as an Alpha DVD under the title Africa in Flames. It was originally titled Stampede, though I'm not sure that's a particularly good title or really where it came from.
This film was shot on location in Sudan and is better for it, though its still not the most exciting of films. The plot starts rolling when a widow is forced according to tribal custom to spend a year alone, or rather with her infant son, in the wild. The mother is attacked and eaten by lions and the young boy is rescued by passing tribesmen. Adopted by the Sheik the boy grows close to the sheik's biological son. Years later when a drought hits and the tribe has to move the encounter a huge brush fire which send them and the animals running.
Good nature and slice of life shots are tied together by narration and a made up story. Its not a bad film, but as I said its not the most exciting of films until the fire filled end. Most of the good will you'll feel toward the film comes from the sense of it being filmed in a real place with real people.
Worth a look for the curious, but not something one need search out.
This film was shot on location in Sudan and is better for it, though its still not the most exciting of films. The plot starts rolling when a widow is forced according to tribal custom to spend a year alone, or rather with her infant son, in the wild. The mother is attacked and eaten by lions and the young boy is rescued by passing tribesmen. Adopted by the Sheik the boy grows close to the sheik's biological son. Years later when a drought hits and the tribe has to move the encounter a huge brush fire which send them and the animals running.
Good nature and slice of life shots are tied together by narration and a made up story. Its not a bad film, but as I said its not the most exciting of films until the fire filled end. Most of the good will you'll feel toward the film comes from the sense of it being filmed in a real place with real people.
Worth a look for the curious, but not something one need search out.
