The African

Year: 1983

Runtime: 101 mins

Language: French

Director: Philippe de Broca

ComedyAdventure

Charlotte travels to East Africa to develop a tourist center on Lake Williams, where pygmy communities live. There she reunites with her husband Victor, a conservationist who abandoned their life three years earlier to live in the jungle. She soon learns that his perfect site for the resort is his own kitchen garden, earning his enthusiastic support.

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