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Plot summary
Kuki Boccazzi is a divorced Italian socialite living in Italy in 1972. A serious car crash changes her life. She accepts a marriage proposal from Paolo Gallmann, whom she does not know well, and travels to Kenya with Paolo and her son Emanuele Pirri to start a ranch. She faces physical and emotional problems there, and Paolo's love of danger takes him away for days at a time to hunt and fish with friends.
Cast
- James Ngcoboas Luka
- Joko Scottas Mirimuk
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about I Dreamed of Africa (2000)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Basinger earned a Golden Raspberry Award nomination for Worst Actress at the 21st Golden Raspberry Awards, also cited for Bless the Child. The film was a huge financial flop: its budget was $50 million and the worldwide gross was less than $15 million.
- The score was one of the last films scored by acclaimed composer Maurice Jarre, and it includes "Voi che sapete" from Act 2 of Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro, sung by mezzo-soprano Brigitte Fassbaender with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, István Kertész conducting.
- The film is based on the autobiographical novel by Kuki Gallmann, an Italian writer who moved to Kenya and became involved in conservation, and it was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2000 Cannes Film Festival, though it proved both a commercial and critical failure.
