Bambuti

Bambuti (originally Kein Platz für wilde Tiere) is a 1956 West German film directed by Bernhard Grzimek and Michael Grzimek. Known as No Place for Wild Animals in the US, the film documents the need for nature reserves in Africa. Plot The film tells of the ever-advancing destruction of the African natural and animal world through the constantly growing and expanding human civilization and admonishes this, as well as the poaching there. Various animal species, mainly around Lake Edward, are shown, but the indigenous people living in the rainforest there, the "Bambuti" (a pygmy people), are also presented. Background The film is only very loosely based on the book of the same name that was published in 1954 or has little in common with it, apart from the warning core message. The latter is primarily about how Bernhard Grzimek goes in search of new animals for the Frankfurt Zoo in the Belgian Congo, catches some and transports them to Frankfurt, including an okapi, which was the first in Germany. Michael wanted to film his father's book in color and so the two traveled back to Africa to film in northeastern Congo, Sudan, Uganda, Kenya and Tanganyika.