Ryan (Greg Cipes) is a lion who wants to go to the wild, where his dad (Samson, voiced by Keifer Sutherland) once lived. When he gets himself shipped to Africa, his zoo friends (and Samson) work together to bring him back. When they get to Africa, however, the animals find themselves in a pile of danger. They have to fight an evil wildebeest called Kazar (William Shatner). But Kazar's safe compared to the other danger on the island- a volcano that's on the edge of eruption. Can the animals find Ryan and get out of Africa before the volcano erupts in so little time?
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It is said to be the first Polish student film to be released commercially.
This was the first Roman Polanski film to be screened publicly.
This film won five international film festival awards in Brussels, San Francisco, and Oberhausen.
Referenced in
Michael Blanco (2004)
- At the beginning of the movie, Michael Blanco comes out of the sea, exactly like the two main characters of the Roman Polanski film (who come out of the sea at the beginning of the film).
Featured in
Film as a Subversive Art: Amos Vogel and Cinema 16 (2003)
- A clip of this film is shown, because it was originally screened by Amos Vogel