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A Dry White Season is a 1989 American drama film about apartheid in South Africa, based on a novel by André Brink. It stars Donald Sutherland, Marlon Brando, Susan Sarandon and others, and was directed by Euzhan Palcy.
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“A Dry White Season” is a powerfully serious movie, but the director, Euzhan Palcy, provides a break in the middle, almost as Shakespeare used to bring on pantomime before returning to the deaths of kings.
A 1989 drama thriller about a white South African teacher who helps his black gardener find his jailed son and exposes the apartheid regime. The film features Donald Sutherland, Marlon Brando, and Zakes Mokae, and was directed by Euzhan Palcy.
Teacher Ben du Toit (Donald Sutherland) mostly ignores the problems of apartheid in South Africa until he discovers that the son of a gardener (Winston Ntshona) at his school has been killed by...
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A white middle class South African suburbanite with no interest in politics agrees to help his black gardener find his jailed son. His investigation opens his eyes to the horrors committed by the secret police and turns him into a target.
A Dry White Season is a novel by André Brink that challenges apartheid in South Africa. It was banned in South Africa and adapted into a film starring Donald Sutherland and Susan Sarandon.
