Overview
In post-apartheid South Africa, Tsidi, a single mother, is forced to move in with her own estranged mother Mavis, a live-in domestic worker caring obsessively for her catatonic white ‘Madam’. And as Tsidi tries to heal her family, a sinister spectre begins to stir.
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Setting
Set in Cape Town
Details
- Director
- Writers
- Sizwe Ginger LubenguWriter
- Sanda ShanduWriter
- Jenna Cato BassWriter
- Chumisa CosaWriter
- Steve LarterWriter
- Khanyiso KenqaWriter
- Original title
- Mlungu Wam
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- September 8, 2021
- Original language
- Xhosa
- Countries
- South Africa
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Cast
Chumisa CosaTsidi- Nosipho MtebeMavis
- Kamvalethu Jonas RaziyaWinnie
- Sanda ShanduStuart
- Khanyiso KenqaLuthando
- Sizwe Ginger LubenguSiphenathi
- Siya SikawutiToto
Chris GxalabaMalume Mthunzi
Peggy TunyiswaXoliswa
Babalwa BaartmanVoice Artist- Uzile BamXoliswa's Son
- Jennifer BoraineMadam
- Jacques de VilliersVoice Artist
- Steve LarterGrant
Sindiwe MagonaVoice Artist- Awonke MgushelwaSkipping Girl
- Francesca Varrie MichelJogger
- Madosini Latozi MpahleniGrandmother's Voice
- Sisipho NukunaSkipping Girl
- Verity PriceYoung Madam
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