The Hunters (1957)

Directors

John Marshall, Robert Gardner

The story

Set in the arid Nyae Nyae region of the Kalahari Desert, the film documents the subsistence practices of the Ju/'hoansi people during the early 1950s. It establishes a gendered division of labor where women gather roots and berries, providing roughly 80% of the community's food while men undertake the difficult task of hunting for the remaining 20% to secure animal protein. The narrative focuses on four hunters Gunda, Gao, Oma, and Ui who set out on an expedition with the resolution not to return empty-handed.

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