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Sarafina!(Movie, 1992)

PG-13
| 1h 57min | Genres: Music, Drama, Kids & Family
Sarafina!Rating: 3.0/5 (with 1919 votes)
Sarafina! is a 1992 musical drama film based on Mbongeni Ngema's 1987 musical of the same name. The film was directed by Darrell Roodt and written by Ngema and William Nicholson, and stars Leleti Khumalo, Miriam Makeba, John Kani, Ngema, and Whoopi Goldberg; Khumalo reprises her role from the stage performance. An international co-production of South Africa, the United States, France, and the UK, the film premiered on 11 May 1992, at the Cannes Film Festival. ()
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About Sarafina!

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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Additional Information

Plays in: South Africa
Original language: English (EN)
Spoken languages: English (EN), Zulu (ZU)
Translated into 7 languages: Czech (CS), German (DE), English (EN), French (FR), Italian (IT), Korean (KO), Portuguese (PT)
Status: Released
Release date US: 09/18/1992
Director: Darrell Roodt
Producer: Ian Bryce
Screenwriter: Mbongeni Ngema
Director of Photography: Mark Vicente
Composer: Stanley Myers
Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):
"Sarafina"

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WatchPlayStream ID: MOVIES:118046, Added: 03/22/2018, Last updated: 03/30/2024