The Great Dance: A Hunter’s Story
2000, NR, 90 min.
Directed by Craig Foster, Damon Foster, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring .

This documentary shows the lives of the bushpeople of the African Kalahari Desert and focuses on the tribal hunters who track game as their forefathers have done for thousands of years. Under the 120-degree sun, these hunters engage in a run to the death in which either man or animal finally collapses from sheer exhaustion.

This article appears in January 12 • 2001.

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Marjorie Baumgarten is a film critic and contributing writer at The Austin Chronicle, where she has worked in many capacities since the paper's founding in 1981. She served as the Chronicle's Film Reviews editor for 25 years.