The ghost and the darkness is a 1996 american historical adventure film directed by stephen hopkins and starring val kilmer and michael douglasthe screenplay was written by william goldmanthe story is a fictionalized account of the tsavo man eaters two tsavo lions that attacked and killed workers at tsavo kenya during the building of the uganda mombasa railway in east africa in 1898. Then the workers become convinced the lions nicknamed the ghost and the darkness are actually demons carrying out a cruel carnage john sets in pursuit the beasts but he has little luck killing the lions though he gets to survive on a mixture of cunning and bravura as the beasts contemptuously evade all traps set for them. The ghost and the darkness michael douglas darsteller val kilmer darsteller stephen hopkins regisseur alterseinstufung nicht geprft format dvd 46 von 5 sternen 1230 sternebewertungen prime video 389 eur blu ray 946 eur dvd 3494 eur videokassette 400 eur weitere versionen auf dvd edition disks . Tsavo britisch ostafrika heute kenia im jahr 1898 der britische ingenieur john patterson kommt mit dem auftrag in die steppe fr eine eisenbahnlinie eine brcke ber den fluss tsavo zu bauen die bauarbeiten werden bald gestrt als mehr und mehr arbeiter von zwei menschenfressenden lwen verschleppt und gettet werden. The ghost and the darkness 1996 starring val kilmer om puri and michael douglas set during victorian era on british development of colonized africa a lieutenant tasked with building a bridge across a river is haunted by enormous beautiful mysterious wild landscape and the beasts that comes with it