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Sarafina! (1992)

ALL 09/18/1992 (en) Music, Drama, Family 117 Min
  • Release
    09/18/1992
  • Production
    BBC, Miramax, Vanguard Films, Hollywood Pictures, Distant Horizon, Ideal, Les Films Ariane, Vanguard Productions, Videovision Entertainment
  • Rotten tomato
    61%
  • Original title
    Sarafina!
  • Original language
    en
  • Production Cost
  • 0.00
    -

She was their teacher. They were her hope.

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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  1. Leleti Khumalo

    Sarafina

  2. Whoopi Goldberg

    Mary Masembuko

  3. John Kani

    School Principal

  4. Miriam Makeba

    Angelina

  5. Mary Twala

    Sarafina's Grandmother

  6. Dumisani Dlamini

    Crocodile

  7. Mbongeni Ngema

    Sabela

  8. Tertius Meintjes

    Lieutenant Bloem

  9. Robert Whitehead

    Interrogator

  10. Greg Latter

    Policeman

  11. Nicky Rebelo

    Soldier

  12. James Whyle

    Soldier

  13. Michelle Bestbier

    Mrs. Hendricks

  14. Patrick Ndlovu

    Victor Gumede

  15. Somizi Mhlongo

    Fire

Full Cast & Crew

Casts : 15 , Crews : 23

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Sarafina! (1992) 117 Min

ALL 09/18/1992 (en)
Music, Drama, Family
  • Release 09/18/1992
  • Production
    BBC, Miramax, Vanguard Films, Hollywood Pictures, Distant Horizon, Ideal, Les Films Ariane, Vanguard Productions, Videovision Entertainment
  • Original title Sarafina!
  • en
  • Revenue0.00

She was their teacher. They were her hope.

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.

  1. Darrell James Roodt

    Director

  2. Story

  3. David Heitner, Peter Hollywood, Sarah Thomas

    Editor

  4. David M. Thompson, Anant Singh

    Producer



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