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Synopsis: A White enclave in Johannesburg, South Africa, in the 1960s. Molly Roth, 13 years old, is the daughter of leftist parents, and she must piece together what's happening around her when her father disappears one night, barely evading arrest, and, not long after, her mother is detained by the authorities. Some of Molly's White friends turn against her, and her family's friendships with Blacks take on new meaning. Relationships are fragile in the world of apartheid. How will she manage?
Genre: Drama
Director(s): Chris Menges
Actors: Jodhi May, Jeroen Krabbé, Barbara Hershey, Nadine Chalmers
Production: Media Home Entertainment
  Won 1 BAFTA Film Award. Another 6 wins & 11 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.1
Rotten Tomatoes:
88%
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PG
Year:
1988
113 min
268 Views

Why he left. It's not fair.

You're never with me.

It's not fair.

You're right.

It's not fair.

It's not fair.

And I'm so sorry it's not fair.

You deserve to have a mother.

Well, you do have one.

Just not the way you want her.

I love you.

We both love you.

I don't even know where he is.

I know he's doing what...

Mandela and Sisulu and the others

should be doing.

And I know...

that if he hadn't left when he did...

he'd be with them right now,

serving a life sentence.

Times have changed.

I love you, all right?

Solomon's being buried tomorrow.

I'm going to go to the funeral.

But you can't leave the house.

They'll arrest you again.

Perhaps.

I want to go.

- Are you sure?

- He was my friend.

Solomon Mabusa was one of us.

What he suffered, we all suffer.

We do not mourn him. We honor him...

and we say that

the only true tribute to him...

is to pick up the spear

from where it has fallen.

Solomon is just one, one man.

And when we defy them...

when we resist in ourselves...

when we resist in our hundreds...

when we resist in our thousands...

in our millions...

then victory is certain.

Africa!

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Shawn Slovo

Shawn Slovo (born 1950) is a screenwriter, best known for the film A World Apart, based on her childhood in South Africa under apartheid. She is the daughter of South African Communist Party leaders Joe Slovo and Ruth First. She wrote the screenplay for the 2006 film Catch a Fire (also a historical film about apartheid), and for the 2001 film Captain Corelli's Mandolin.In the late 1970s she served as Robert De Niro's personal assistant while he made the films Raging Bull and The King of Comedy. She also made the screenplay for Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight. Slovo currently lives in London and often works for Working Title Films. Her sister Gillian Slovo is also a writer and her sister Robyn Slovo is a producer. more…

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