Sarafina!

Sarafina!

Release date : September 18, 1992
Runtime : 1h 57m
Original Language : English / Zulu /
Director : Darrell James Roodt /
Production companies : BBC / Vanguard Films / Distant Horizon / Ideal / Les Films Ariane / Videovision Entertainment / Hollywood Pictures / Miramax /
September 18, 1992 1h 57m South Africa Music English More
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The plot centers on students involved in the Soweto Riots, in opposition to the implementation of Afrikaans as the language of instruction in schools. The stage version presents a school uprising similar to the Soweto uprising on June 16, 1976. A narrator introduces several characters among them the school girl activist Sarafina. Things get out of control when a policeman shoots several pupils in a classroom. Nevertheless, the musical ends with a cheerful farewell show of pupils leaving school, which takes most of act two. In the movie version Sarafina feels shame at her mother's (played by Miriam Makeba in the film) acceptance of her role as domestic servant in a white household in apartheid South Africa, and inspires her peers to rise up in protest, especially after her inspirational teacher, Mary Masombuka (played by Whoopi Goldberg in the film version) is imprisoned.
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Leleti Khumalo
Sarafina
Whoopi Goldberg
Mary Masembuko
John Kani
School Principal
Miriam Makeba
Angelina
Mary Twala
Sarafina's Grandmother
Tertius Meintjes
Lieutenant Bloem
Robert Whitehead
Interrogator
Greg Latter
Policeman
Nicky Rebelo
Soldier
James Whyle
Soldier
Michelle Bestbier
Mrs. Hendricks
Patrick Ndlovu
Victor Gumede

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  • title:Sarafina!
  • status:Released
  • Release date: 1992
  • Runtime:1h 57m
  • Genres: Music · Drama · Family ·
  • Countries of origin: South Africa · United Kingdom · United States of America · France ·
  • Original Language: English · Zulu ·
  • Director: Darrell James Roodt /
  • Writers: William Nicholson · Mbongeni Ngema · Mbongeni Ngema ·
  • Production companies: BBC · Vanguard Films · Distant Horizon · Ideal · Les Films Ariane · Videovision Entertainment · Hollywood Pictures · Miramax ·
  • Overview:The plot centers on students involved in the Soweto Riots, in opposition to the implementation of Afrikaans as the language of instruction in schools. The stage version presents a school uprising similar to the Soweto uprising on June 16, 1976. A narrator introduces several characters among them the school girl activist Sarafina. Things get out of control when a policeman shoots several pupils in a classroom. Nevertheless, the musical ends with a cheerful farewell show of pupils leaving school, which takes most of act two. In the movie version Sarafina feels shame at her mother's (played by Miriam Makeba in the film) acceptance of her role as domestic servant in a white household in apartheid South Africa, and inspires her peers to rise up in protest, especially after her inspirational teacher, Mary Masombuka (played by Whoopi Goldberg in the film version) is imprisoned.
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