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Sarafina! (1992) [PG-13]

Release Date:
September 18, 1992

Original Title:
Sarafina!

Alternate Titles:
Sarafina

Genres:
Drama | Family | Music

Production Companies:
BBC
Distant Horizon
Hollywood Pictures
Ideal
Les Films Ariane
Miramax
Vanguard Films
Vanguard Productions
Videovision Entertainment

Production Countries:
France | South Africa | United Kingdom | United States of America

Ratings / Certifications:
US: PG-13 

Runtime: 117

She was their teacher. They were her hope.

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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.

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Director:
Darrell James Roodt

Director of Photography:
Mark Vicente

Editor:
David Heitner
Peter Hollywood
Sarah Thomas

Executive Producer:
Kirk D'Amico
Sudhir Pragjee
Sanjeev Singh
Helena Spring

First Assistant Director:
Graham Hickson

First Assistant Editor:
Megan Gill

Line Producer:
Tania Jenkins

Makeup Artist:
Debra-Lee Davidson

Original Music Composer:
Stanley Myers

Producer:
David M. Thompson
Anant Singh

Production Design:
David Barkham

Screenplay:
Mbongeni Ngema
William Nicholson

Set Decoration:
Emilia Roux

Special Effects Coordinator:
Rick Cresswell

Supervising Sound Editor:
Nicky De Beer

Theatre Play:
Mbongeni Ngema

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