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A group of adventurers head to a primitive tribe in Africa to find a treasure of diamonds and a beautiful white girl who was lost years ago and was made the tribe's goddess.A group of adventurers head to a primitive tribe in Africa to find a treasure of diamonds and a beautiful white girl who was lost years ago and was made the tribe's goddess.A group of adventurers head to a primitive tribe in Africa to find a treasure of diamonds and a beautiful white girl who was lost years ago and was made the tribe's goddess.
Antonio Mayans
- Fred Pereira
- (as Robert Foster)
Mari Carmen Nieto
- Lita
- (as Ana Stern)
Daniel White
- Mr. De Winter
- (as Dan Villers)
Yolanda Mobita
- Girl
- (as Yolanda Mubita)
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- TriviaKatja Bienert said playing in this film was quite an act, cause she is far away from being sportive. "Mostly I was frightened acting like being a female Tarzan, so I was thankful that he added some scenes where I looked seductive or was fighting with my hunters - anything, but my feet on the ground. We shot on the Canary Islands in a natural resort and I enjoyed being in the nature, having a comfortable hotel nearby. Mostly we shot during the summer-holidays, cause Jess always respected me being a schoolgirl," Bienert recalled.
- GoofsTwo crew members are seen hiding behind some rocks when Fred walks off just before Lita goes swimming.
- Alternate versionsThe export version, credited to Cole Polly, has a few additional scenes shot by Olivier Mathot.
- ConnectionsReferences Cannibal Holocaust (1980)
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Good old Jess Franco! The always-reliable choice of director in case you're looking for undemanding sleaze, shameless exploitation and 200% gratuitousness. Jess once again really surpassed himself with this utterly trashy piece of jungle "adventure". Let's face it, this film is basically just an excuse to have the ravishingly hot (and underage
) actress Katja Bienert parade around topless. It's actually a rather disturbing thought that an innocent 16-year-old girl had to walk around a film set naked in front of a whole crew and particularly before the gazing eyes of pervert Franco! And it wasn't even the first time, since the duo previously already made "Linda" together. Anyways, just in case you wondered: YES, "Diamonds of the Kilimanjaro" does have a plot, albeit a very imbecilic one. During the opening sequences a plane, carrying aboard a wealthy Scottish guy and a girl child, crash amidst an African tribe of vegetarian cannibals. I say vegetarian because they never at one point in the film so much even attempt to consume human flesh. The obnoxious Scot declares himself the Great White Leader and the girl grows up to become the beautiful and scarcely dressed White Goddess. Several years later an expedition reaches the middle of the jungle to get the girl back to civilization and even more importantly - to steal some of the tribe's legendary diamonds. This could have been a compelling and action-packed adventure movie, but Jess Franco obviously couldn't be bothered. Why shoot jungle chase sequences or bloody cannibalistic rites when you can just as easily aim your camera at a hot young chick sitting naked in a tree? Most of the jungle settings simply appear to be filmed in someone's garden and there's a massive amount of clumsily edited National Geographic wildlife footage in order to fill up the gaps in continuity. The back of the DVD describes "Diamonds of the Kilimanjaro" as an ingenious, feminist and adult orientated version of Tarzan. Yeah right, they just put that sentence there because Katja Bienert's character swings from one tree to another using a a couple of times.
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