Sarafina!
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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.
Status: Released
Released Date: 1992-09-18
Runtime: 117 mins
Director: Darrell James Roodt
Spoken language: English, isiZulu
Genres: Music, Drama, Family
Original title: Sarafina!
Production Companies: BBC, Vanguard Films, Distant Horizon, Ideal, Les Films Ariane, Videovision Entertainment, Hollywood Pictures, Miramax
Production Countries: South Africa, United Kingdom, United States of America, France
Cast
Leleti Khumalo
Whoopi Goldberg
John Kani
Miriam Makeba
Mary Twala
Dumisani Dlamini
Mbongeni Ngema
Tertius Meintjes
Robert Whitehead
Greg Latter
Nicky Rebelo
James Whyle
Michelle Bestbier
Patrick Ndlovu
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