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Sarafina!

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6.1/10 • 44

1992-09-181h 57m

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She was their teacher. They were her hope.

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.

Directors
Darrell James Roodt
Editors
Sarah Thomas

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  1. Leleti Khumalo

    Leleti Khumalo

    Sarafina

  2. Whoopi Goldberg

    Whoopi Goldberg

    Mary Masembuko

  3. John Kani

    John Kani

    School Principal

  4. Miriam Makeba

    Miriam Makeba

    Angelina

  5. Mary Twala

    Mary Twala

    Sarafina's Grandmother

  6. Dumisani Dlamini

    Dumisani Dlamini

    Crocodile

  7. Mbongeni Ngema

    Mbongeni Ngema

    Sabela

  8. Tertius Meintjes

    Tertius Meintjes

    Lieutenant Bloem

  9. Robert Whitehead

    Robert Whitehead

    Interrogator

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Status
Released
Original Language
English
Budget
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Keywords
africasouth africaapartheidmusicalbased on play or musicalsoweto