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The Gods Must Be Crazy
is a
movie
directed by
Jamie Uys
. It was released in the
United States
by
20th Century Fox
in 1980.
Upon its release,
The Gods Must Be Crazy
made the more money than any other foreign movie. Four sequels followed from 1989 to 1994. The last three in the series were made in
Hong Kong
.
It stars
Namibian
farmer
N!xau
as a
Bushman
, whose happy village (in
Africa
's
Kalahari
desert
) suddenly turns to a violent society, after a
Coke
bottle falls down there from a passing
airplane
. The Bushman, Xixo, decides to return the bottle to the "end of the earth", to finish all the evil his family has gone through. Along the way, he meets a group of
terrorists
on the run, as well as a clumsy
scientist
who falls in love with a former
newspaper
journalist
. During his journey, Xixo encounters modern
civilisation
for the first time.