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Jun 17, 1988 · A 1988 film about a white South African family and their struggle against apartheid. Barbara Hershey stars as a journalist who is arrested and tortured by the police, while her daughter (Jodhi May) comes of age and learns the truth.
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- Drama
- Chris Menges
- 1988-06-17
A World Apart is a 1988 anti-apartheid drama film directed by Chris Menges, and starring Barbara Hershey, David Suchet, Jeroen Krabbé, Paul Freeman, Tim Roth and Jodhi May. Written by Shawn Slovo, it is based on the lives of Slovo's parents, Ruth First and Joe Slovo.
A World Apart is a 1988 film based on the childhood memories of Shawn Slovo, a daughter of South African activists. It depicts the personal and political consequences of apartheid through the eyes of a 13-year-old girl and her mother.
Molly (Jodhi May), a white teenage girl living in Johannesburg during the 1960s, finds her life turned upside down when her leftist parents become targets of the pro-apartheid South African ...
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- Chris Menges
- PG
- Barbara Hershey
A World Apart: Created by Katherine Phillips. With William Prince, Susan Sarandon, Susan Sullivan, Augusta Dabney. The disparity between generations, races, and genders (people who found themselves psychologically "a world apart" from one another) motivated this short-lived serial.
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- 1970-03-30
- Drama
- 30
Molly Roth, 13 years old, is the daughter of leftist parents, and she must piece together what's happening around her when her father disappears one night, barely evading arrest, and, not long after, her mother is detained by the authorities.
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A World Apart is an American daytime drama that ran from March 30, 1970, to June 25, 1971, on ABC.
