I Dreamed of Africa
Encyclopedia
I Dreamed of Africa is a 2000 film
starring Kim Basinger
, Vincent Perez
, Eve Marie Saint, Garrett Strommen
, Liam Aiken
and Daniel Craig
. It is based on the autobiographical novel I Dreamed of Africa
by Kuki Gallmann
, an Italian writer who moved to Kenya
and became involved in conservation
work. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard
section at the 2000 Cannes Film Festival
.
The film, on the whole, was not received well, despite praise for Kim Basinger's performance. Basinger earned a Razzie Award nomination for Worst Actress (also for Bless the Child
).
It was also a huge financial flop
: its budget was $50 million while worldwide gross was less than $15 million.
2000 in film
The year 2000 in film involved some significant events.The top grosser worldwide was Mission: Impossible II. Domestically in North America, Gladiator won the Academy Awards for Best Picture and Best Actor ....
starring Kim Basinger
Kim Basinger
Kimila Ann "Kim" Basinger is an American actress and former fashion model.She is known for her portrayals of Domino Petachi, the Bond girl in Never Say Never Again , and Vicki Vale, the female lead in Batman . Basinger received a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture...
, Vincent Perez
Vincent Pérez
Vincent Pérez is a Swiss-born French speaking actor and director. He is best known internationally for playing the title character Ashe Corven in The Crow: City of Angels, and for starring in Queen of the Damned, playing Marius de Romanus...
, Eve Marie Saint, Garrett Strommen
Garrett Strommen
Garrett Strommen is an American actor, entrepreneur, and visual artist born on October 8, 1982 in St. Louis, Missouri. Before his big break in the movie "I Dreamed of Africa" in 2000, he got his start in Italy with school productions. He lived in Rome, for over 8 years where he attended St....
, Liam Aiken
Liam Aiken
Liam Padraic Aiken is an American actor who has starred in a number of films, such as Stepmom and Good Boy!. He starred as Klaus Baudelaire in Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events, based on the series of books....
and Daniel Craig
Daniel Craig
Daniel Wroughton Craig is an English actor. His early film roles include Elizabeth, The Power of One, A Kid in King Arthur's Court and the television episodes Sharpe's Eagle, Zorro and The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles: Daredevils of the Desert...
. It is based on the autobiographical novel I Dreamed of Africa
I Dreamed of Africa (book)
I Dreamed of Africa is a memoir by Italian writer Kuki Gallmann. The book focuses on Gallmann's life-long affair with Africa, from her childhood's fascination for the continent to her decision to relocate in Kenya, in 1972, to run a farm in the Laikipia plain with her husband and son...
by Kuki Gallmann
Kuki Gallmann
Kuki Gallmann is an Italian writer and poet. Born in Treviso, Veneto, she moved to Kenya in 1972 with her husband and son and is now a Kenyan citizen. She wrote several books about her life in Africa, all of them in English; the best known is I Dreamed of Africa. A movie adaptation of the book,...
, an Italian writer who moved to Kenya
Kenya
Kenya , officially known as the Republic of Kenya, is a country in East Africa that lies on the equator, with the Indian Ocean to its south-east...
and became involved in conservation
Conservation biology
Conservation biology is the scientific study of the nature and status of Earth's biodiversity with the aim of protecting species, their habitats, and ecosystems from excessive rates of extinction...
work. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard
Un Certain Regard
Un Certain Regard is a section of the Cannes Film Festival's Official Selection. It is run at the Salle Debussy, parallel to the competition for the Palme d'Or.This section was introduced in 1978 by Gilles Jacob...
section at the 2000 Cannes Film Festival
2000 Cannes Film Festival
The 2000 Cannes Film Festival started on May 14 and ran until May 25. The Palme d'Or went to the Danish film Dancer in the Dark by Lars von Trier.-Jury:* Luc Besson, President * Jonathan Demme * Nicole Garcia...
.
The film, on the whole, was not received well, despite praise for Kim Basinger's performance. Basinger earned a Razzie Award nomination for Worst Actress (also for Bless the Child
Bless the Child
Bless the Child is a 2000 supernatural thriller film directed by Chuck Russell, starring Kim Basinger, Jimmy Smits, Angela Bettis, Rufus Sewell, Christina Ricci, and Holliston Coleman...
).
It was also a huge financial flop
Box office bomb
The phrase box office bomb refers to a film for which the production and marketing costs greatly exceeded the revenue regained by the movie studio. This should not be confused with Hollywood accounting when official figures show large losses, yet the movie is a financial success.A film's financial...
: its budget was $50 million while worldwide gross was less than $15 million.
Cast
- Kim BasingerKim BasingerKimila Ann "Kim" Basinger is an American actress and former fashion model.She is known for her portrayals of Domino Petachi, the Bond girl in Never Say Never Again , and Vicki Vale, the female lead in Batman . Basinger received a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture...
- Kuki Gallmann - Vincent PerezVincent PérezVincent Pérez is a Swiss-born French speaking actor and director. He is best known internationally for playing the title character Ashe Corven in The Crow: City of Angels, and for starring in Queen of the Damned, playing Marius de Romanus...
- Paolo Gallmann - Liam AikenLiam AikenLiam Padraic Aiken is an American actor who has starred in a number of films, such as Stepmom and Good Boy!. He starred as Klaus Baudelaire in Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events, based on the series of books....
& Garrett StrommenGarrett StrommenGarrett Strommen is an American actor, entrepreneur, and visual artist born on October 8, 1982 in St. Louis, Missouri. Before his big break in the movie "I Dreamed of Africa" in 2000, he got his start in Italy with school productions. He lived in Rome, for over 8 years where he attended St....
- Emanuele (age 7 and age 17) - Eva Marie SaintEva Marie SaintEva Marie Saint is an American actress who has starred in films, on Broadway, and on television in a career spanning seven decades. She won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in the drama film On the Waterfront , and later starred in the thriller film North by...
- Franca - Daniel CraigDaniel CraigDaniel Wroughton Craig is an English actor. His early film roles include Elizabeth, The Power of One, A Kid in King Arthur's Court and the television episodes Sharpe's Eagle, Zorro and The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles: Daredevils of the Desert...
- Declan Fielding - Lance ReddickLance ReddickLance Reddick is an American theater, film and TV actor and musician born in Baltimore, Maryland. He starred in The Wire as Cedric Daniels, appeared in Oz as Detective Johnny Basil and appeared in the fourth and fifth seasons of Lost. He now has a prominent role in Fringe...
- Simon - Connie Chiume - Wanjiku
Soundtrack
- "Voi che sapete", sung by Brigitte FassbaenderBrigitte FassbaenderBrigitte Fassbaender , is a mezzo-soprano opera singer, a stage director and since 1997 Intendant of the Tiroler Landestheater in Innsbruck, Austria...
(mezzo soprano), with the Vienna Philharmonic OrchestraVienna Philharmonic OrchestraThe Vienna Philharmonic is an orchestra in Austria, regularly considered one of the finest in the world....
, István KertészIstván KertészIstván Kertész was a Hungarian orchestral and operatic conductor.-Childhood:Kertész was born in Budapest, Hungary, in 1929, the first child of Margit Muresian and Miklós Kertész. His sister, Vera, was born four years later...
conducting, from Act 2 of the opera Le nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of FigaroThe Marriage of FigaroLe nozze di Figaro, ossia la folle giornata , K. 492, is an opera buffa composed in 1786 in four acts by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, with Italian libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte, based on a stage comedy by Pierre Beaumarchais, La folle journée, ou le Mariage de Figaro .Although the play by...
), K. 492, composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.