Sarafina!

Sarafina! (1992)

She was their teacher. They were her hope.

  • Genre: Music, Drama, Family
  • Release Date: 1992-09-18
  • User Rating: 6.1/10 from 40 ratings
  • Runtime: 1h 57min
  • Language: English
  • Production Company: BBC
  • Production Country: South Africa, United Kingdom, United States of America, France
  • Director: Darrell James Roodt
star 6.1/10
From 40 Ratings

Summary

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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  • Leleti Khumalo

    as Sarafina
  • Whoopi Goldberg

    as Mary Masembuko
  • John Kani

    as School Principal
  • Miriam Makeba

    as Angelina
  • Mary Twala

    as Sarafina's Grandmother
  • Dumisani Dlamini

    as Crocodile
  • Mbongeni Ngema

    as Sabela
  • Tertius Meintjes

    as Lieutenant Bloem
  • Robert Whitehead

    as Interrogator
  • Greg Latter

    as Policeman
  • Nicky Rebelo

    as Soldier
  • James Whyle

    as Soldier
  • Michelle Bestbier

    as Mrs. Hendricks
  • Patrick Ndlovu

    as Victor Gumede
  • Somizi Mhlongo

    as Fire
Directing Darrell James Roodt Director
Sound Stanley Myers Original Music Composer
Camera Mark Vicente Director of Photography
Writing William Nicholson Screenplay
Production David M. Thompson Producer
Production Tania Jenkins Line Producer
Production Helena Spring Executive Producer
Production Sanjeev Singh Executive Producer
Writing Mbongeni Ngema Screenplay
Editing Peter Hollywood Editor
Crew Rick Cresswell Special Effects Coordinator
Writing Mbongeni Ngema Theatre Play
Production Kirk D'Amico Executive Producer
Editing David Heitner Editor
Editing Sarah Thomas Editor
Sound Nicky De Beer Supervising Sound Editor
Art Emilia Roux Set Decoration
Costume & Make-Up Debra-Lee Davidson Makeup Artist
Directing Graham Hickson First Assistant Director
Editing Megan Gill First Assistant Editor
Art David Barkham Production Design
Production Sudhir Pragjee Executive Producer
Production Anant Singh Producer

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