Filming

March 1973.

Footage of scenes shot for an Italian-Ghanaian film production entitled "Il Contratto Carnale" (AKA "The African Deal Contract", "Carnal Contract" and "Contract") in the Western Region of Ghana.

Directed by Giorgio Bontempi and produced by Ghana Films and the Ita-Victoria Film Company of Italy, the film cost $500,000 to make. It starred the Bahamanian-American actor Calvin Lockhart as "Kofi Ruma".

The film storyline was about an African industrialist tendering for a 50 million US dollar contract who is opposed by a European industrialist. The story brings out many aspects of African life and economic activity amid love, hatred and violence.

Director Bontempi said that the concept of the film was to show Europeans that Tarzan's Africa does not exist and that Africans, like anybody else can be either good or bad.

Source: Reuters News Archive.

British Film Institute Entry
https://www.bfi.org.uk/films-t....v-people/4ce2b703aaf