To Walk with Lions
Synopsis
Tony discovers that his reclusive employer is George Adamson of 'Born Free' fame who, many years before with his wife Joy, set the tame lioness Elsa free in the wild. After Born Free, George retreated from the world to a reserve called Kora. Here he oversees the herds of elephant and rhino, but his main work is to re-introduce dozens of captive lions from around the world, back into the wild. Tony grows to understand the lions and to love them as much as George.
One of the most deadly developments in Northern Kenya is the arrival of bandits or 'shifta' - small bands of renegade soldiers on the run from the wars - merciless toward rhino, elephant and man. A small band of shifta move toward George's camp to kill the Old Lion Man. Tony helps to drive the shifta away, but is too late. George dies in his arms.
George's death has an international impact and stimulates a successful initiative by the Kenyan Government to drive out the shifta and end the poaching.
Details
- Year
- 2000
- Type of project
- Features
- Format
- 35mm Kodak
- Director
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Carl Schultz
- Producer
- John Buchanan
- Editor
- Angela Corrano
- Screenwriter
- Keith Ross Leckie
- Director of Photography
- Jean Lepine
- Sound
- Recordist – Stuart French
- Principal cast
- Richard Harris, Ian Bannen, Kerry Fox, Geraldine Chaplin, Honor Blackman
Categories
Production Status
Production Company
Kingsborough Greenlight 6265 St Jacques Suite 100 Montreal Quebec H4B 1T8 Canada Tel: 001 514 489 4829 Fax: 001 514 489 4833
Sales Company
IAC Films 23 Ransome's Dock, 35-37 Parkgate Road London SW11 4NP Tel: 020 7801 9080 Fax: 020 7801 9081 claudette@iacholdings.co.uk
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