1994
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Nous y voyons Sarafina, jeune fille noire rêvant de liberté, grandement influencée par son professeur, Mary Masembuko, qui lui ouvre l'esprit sur la situation de son pays. Une série d'évènements qui l'a conduisent en prison et qui la poussent à grandir.
Sarafina! est un film réalisé par Darrell James Roodt avec Whoopi Goldberg, Miriam Makeba. Synopsis : A travers l'histoire de la jeune Sarafina, chronique du role cle qu'ont joue les enfants ...
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- min | Drame, Musical, Comédie musicale
- Darrell James Roodt
- 90
Il y a 2 jours · 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 ...
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- Darrell James Roodt
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28 mars 2020 · Sarafina! premiered on Broadway on 28 January 1988, at the Cort Theatre, and closed on 2 July 1989, after 597 performances and 11 previews. The musical was conceived and directed by Mbongeni...
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The plot focuses on students involved in the Soweto Uprising, in opposition to the implementation of Afrikaansas the language of instruction in schools. The character Sarafina (Leleti Khumalo) feels shame at her mother's (Miriam Makeba) acceptance of her role as domestic servant in a white household in apartheid South Africa, and inspires her peers...
Filming
Producer Anant Singh acquired the film rights to the Broadway musical Sarafina! After no Hollywood studio was willing to finance it, Singh raised the funds himself, with the BBC and the French company Revcom being among the investors. By the time filming started, Nelson Mandela was freed and apartheidwas abolished, though racial tensions were still high. Said director Darrell Roodt: “Though our project is still confrontational and angry, it’s told with more hope and a spirit of reconciliation...
Accolades
The film was screened out of competition at the 1992 Cannes Film Festival, where it was greeted with a standing ovation. Years later, Whoopi Goldberg mentioned on The Daily Show with Trevor Noah (who said the film was a hit in South Africa), that the ‘92 LA rebellion happened at the same time that Sarafina! was released which hampered the film's chance of success in the United States.The film holds a 60% score on Rotten Tomatoes.
Release
Miramax Films acquired the domestic rights to Sarafina! in February 1992 after seeing 40 minutes of footage; in turn, Miramax licensed those rights to Disney (with its subsidiary, Hollywood) after the film was screened at Cannes. The film was released on 18 September 1992. Sarafina! was re-released in South Africa on 16 June 2006 to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the Soweto uprising in Soweto. The re-mastered director's cut is not very different from the original, except for the inclusio...
Box office
Sarafina! grossed $7,306,242 in the United States and Canada.It was the fourth-highest grossing film in South Africa for the year with a gross of $1.33 million.
Sarafina! at IMDbSarafina! at Rotten TomatoesFreedom is coming tomorrow! Whoopi Goldberg leads a class on an uplifting journey to rise against Apartheid.
A travers l'histoire de la jeune Sarafina, chronique du role cle qu'ont joue les enfants dans la lutte contre l'apartheid en Afrique du Sud et du processus qui a abouti a la liberation de Nelson Mandela.
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