Sarafina!
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Sarafina! |
| Original title | Sarafina! |
| Country of production | South Africa |
| Publishing year | 1992 |
| length | 117 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Darrell Roodt |
| script |
Mbongeni Ngema William Nicholson |
| production |
Ian Bryce Laura Ziskin Anant Singh |
| music | Mbongeni Ngema Stanley Myers Hugh Masekela |
| camera | Mark Vicente |
| cut |
David Heitner Peter Hollywood Marcelle Mouton Sarah Thomas |
| occupation | |
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Sarafina! is a South African feature film from 1992 .
action
1976: Pupils resist the introduction of Afrikaans as the language of instruction during the uprising in Soweto . Sarafina is ashamed that her mother works as a domestic servant in a white household. She inspires her peers to rebel after her teacher Mary Masombuka was arrested.
production
Filming
Whoopie Goldberg convinced Disney to make this film because she would then be ready to play the role of Dolores van Cartier again in Sister Act 2 - On a Divine Mission . The film was shot in Soweto and Johannesburg , South Africa . Darrell Rodt directed from the script by Mbongeni Ngema and William Nicholson.
Awards
Sarafina! was shown out of competition at the 1992 Cannes Film Festival .
The German Film and Media Evaluation FBW in Wiesbaden awarded the film the title valuable.
publication
The film was released on September 18, 1992 in English-speaking countries and on April 8, 1993 in Germany. On June 16, 2006 there was a new publication for the 30th anniversary of the uprising in Soweto . This “remastered Directors Cut” version also contains a scene between Sarafina and her mother, which was cut from the original film and contains the song Thank You Mama .
background
Sarafina! is the film adaptation of the musical of the same name, which premiered in June 1987 at the Market Theater in Johannesburg and was played on Broadway in New York , among other places .
Web links
- Sarafina! in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Sarafina! on cinema.de
- Sarafina! on boxofficemojo.com
Individual evidence
- ↑ Darrell James: Festival de Cannes: SARAFINA ( English ) In: festival-cannes.com . festival-cannes.com. August 17, 2009. Retrieved June 24, 2013.