Director : Régis WargnierActors : Joseph Fiennes, Kristin Scott Thomas, Iain Glen, Hugh Bonneville, Lomama Boseki, Cécile Bayiha, Flora Montgomery, Patrick Mofokeng, Alistair Petrie, Hubert Saint MacaryFeature film, Fiction Production language : Nationality : Majority French (Great Britain) French release : 4/13/05 Runtime : 2h 2mn Current status : Released Associate production company : Vertigo ProductionsCo-production : Boréales, France 3 Cinéma, France 2 CinémaFrench distribution : ARP SélectionFilm export/Foreign Sales : Wild Bunch Synopsis In 1870, Jamie Dodd, a Scottish anthropologist, returns from Africa to Scotland with two Pygmies. These “wild dwarves” are quickly coveted by all and sundry. Some believe that they are the "missing link" between apes and man, while others want to turn them into circus animals.
Only Dodd treats them as though they are human beings, not savages.
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