Trivia

With this movie, writer and director Euzhan Palcy became the first Black woman to direct a major Hollywood movie.

This was the final movie to depict an anti-Apartheid story that was released while African philanthropist, activist, statesman, politician, and anti-Apartheid revolutionary Nelson Mandela was still in prison.

Reportedly, the making of this movie was spied upon by the South African government during this movie's production in Zimbabwe.

According to the Turner Classic Movies Database website, "The film is dedicated to Hannah and Henri Marie-Joseph. While Marlon Brando agreed to work on this film at no cost, he accepted the minimum required Screen Actors Guild rate of $4,000. Donald Sutherland, Michael Gambon, Janet Suzman and Susan Sarandon also worked for reduced salaries. According to a televised interview with Brando on October 7, 1989, the actor received $3,300,000 for his work (an anticipated percentage of the gross), which he planned to donate to the anti-Apartheid cause."

This was Marlon Brando's first movie in nine years, with his previous having been The Formula (1980). The gap was due to Brando's self-imposed retirement from acting.