Sarafina!
She was their teacher. They were her hope.
Rating: 6.2 out of 10TMDB(49 votes)
Overview
A Soweto schoolgirl named Sarafina is galvanized to protest apartheid after her teacher is arrested for her activism, leading her to join the student resistance movement.
Fun facts
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Box office
Grossed $8.61M worldwide
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Setting
Set in South Africa
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Music
Music by Stanley Myers
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Cinematography
Cinematography by Mark Vicente
Details
- Director
- Writers
- Mbongeni NgemaScreenplay
- William NicholsonScreenplay
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- September 18, 1992
- Original language
- English
- Revenue
- $8.6M
- Countries
- South Africa, United Kingdom, United States of America, France
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In the United States
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Cast
Leleti KhumaloSarafina
Whoopi GoldbergMary Masembuko
John KaniSchool Principal
Miriam MakebaAngelina
Mary TwalaSarafina's Grandmother
Dumisani DlaminiCrocodile
Mbongeni NgemaSabela
Tertius MeintjesLieutenant Bloem
Robert WhiteheadInterrogator
Greg LatterPoliceman
Nicky RebeloSoldier
James WhyleSoldier- Michelle BestbierMrs. Hendricks
Patrick NdlovuVictor Gumede
Somizi MhlongoFire
Sipho KuneneGuitar
Nhlanhla NgemaStimela- Faca KhuluEddie
- Wendy MselekuChina
- James MthobaSarafina's Uncle
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