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Apr 6, 1979 · Ashanti: Directed by Richard Fleischer. With Michael Caine, Peter Ustinov, Kabir Bedi, Beverly Johnson. Dr. Anansa Linderby (Beverly Johnson) is kidnapped in a medical mission in Africa by a slave trader. From this moment, her husband will do anything to recover her and to punish the bad guys, but that will be not an easy task.
- Richard Fleischer
- 2
- 3 min
David Linderby (Caine) is a W.H.O medic who is left devastated when his black wife Anansa (Beverly Johnson) goes missing during an aid trip to an African tribal village. Linderby gradually realises that his wife has been snatched by slave traders - led by Suleiman (Peter Ustinov) - and he sets off on a continent-wide pursuit which eventually ...
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The film, directed by old hand Richard Fleischer, opens in Africa when an interracial married couple - doctors David and Anansa Linderby (Michael Caine and Beverly Johnson)- are seen providing medical services to remote tribes who reside in isolated regions.
Ashanti. A World Health Organization doctor (Michael Caine) searches the Mideast for his wife (Beverly Johnson) and the slave trader (Peter Ustinov) who took her.
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- Richard Fleischer
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- Michael Caine
Richard Fleischer. Michael Caine stars as Dr David Linderby, a World Health Organisation physician working in a remote African village with his beautiful, African-born wife, Anansa (Beverly Johnson). Because Anansa is black and dressed in regional clothing, she’s mistaken for a local girl by an Arabian slaver, Suleiman (Peter Ustinov), whose ...
SHOW ALL QUESTIONS. Ashanti (also called Ashanti, Land of No Mercy) is a 1979 action adventure film directed by Richard Fleischer and starring Michael Caine, Peter Ustinov, Kabir Bedi, Beverly Johnson, Omar Sharif, Rex Harrison, and William Holden. It is based on the 1974 novel Ébano by Alberto Vázquez-Figueroa, with a screenplay written by ...