A Far Off Place (1993) on Netflix
PG19931h 48mAdventureDramaFamily
Nonnie Parker clashes with Harry Winslow, a spoiled teenager from New York visiting her family's Kalahari home. When poachers kill their parents, the two flee with the bushman Xhabbo.
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Plot summary
Nonnie Parker lives in the Kalahari with her parents, Elizabeth and Paul, and hopes to follow them into work protecting wildlife from elephant poachers. Harry Winslow, a spoiled teenager from New York, arrives with his father to stay with the family, and he and Nonnie quickly get on badly. One night Nonnie and the family dog, Hintza, slip away to a cave where her bushman friend Xhabbo is recovering from a leopard attack, and Harry follows. At dawn Nonnie returns home to find that poachers have killed her parents and Harry's father. The killers are hunting the two teenagers as witnesses. With no transport, Nonnie, Harry and Xhabbo set out on foot across the Kalahari.
Cast
- Sarel Bokas Xhabbo
- Fidelis Chezaas Tracker
- Taffy Chihotaas Warden Robert
- Anthony Chinyangaas Doctor
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about A Far Off Place (1993)
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- Disney fired the original director and cinematographer, Rene Manzor and Paul Gyulay, two weeks into production. Steven Spielberg then recommended Mikael Salomon to direct, making A Far Off Place Salomon's directorial debut.
- It took more than seven months to cast the role of Xhabbo: talent scouts met over 4,000 Bushmen from four African countries before settling on Sarel Bok, a musician of Bushman descent, discovered in Cape Town and cast in April 1992.
- Producer Eva Monley obtained the rights to Laurens van der Post's novels A Story Like the Wind and A Far Off Place in 1980; an early draft by Jonathan Hensleigh kept the books' young male protagonist, before filmmakers had Sally Robinson rewrite the lead as a girl.
