-Didn't receive a major U.S. release until 1984. 

 

-Sandra Prinsloo had a strong Afrikaans accent in the original soundtrack and her voice was dubbed by an American actress for the US release of the film. 

 

-Biggest foreign box office hit during its release. 

 

-Was banned shortly after release in Trinidad and Tobago following protests from pressure groups that claimed it was racist. 

 

-The film was made by a South African director and was financed with South African government funds, but was released as a Botswanan film because there was a hard 

international embargo against South Africa. 

 

-Ran for 532 consecutive days at the Oaks Theaters in Cupertino, California. It was pulled only because the film reels they used fell into disrepair and a large section caught fire. After such a long run, it was simply cost prohibitive to have the reels replaced, but the record still stands as the longest uninterrupted run of any movie in Northern California. 

 

-Picked up by the midnight movie circuit shortly after its initial release. 

 

-N!xau was paid less than $2000 for his role as Xi, even though the film grossed over $100 million worldwide. Before his death in 1996, Jamie Uys supplemented this with an additional $20,000 as well as a monthly stipend 

 

-The films' depictions of the Bushmen, even if they were superficially accurate in the decades before the rapid social changes of the 1970s and 1980s, are clearly no longer accurate. The DVD's special feature "Journey to Nyae Nyae" (N!xau's homeland in northeastern Namibia), filmed in 2003, demonstrates this. 

 

-Director Jamie Uys appears in this film as the Reverend. 

 

-In the final scenes of the film, Xi throws the bottle over a cliff. This scene was filmed at God's Window, a site located at the edge of the escarpment between the Highveld and Lowveld, in the province of Mpumalanga, South Africa.