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A Dry White Season is a 1989 American drama film directed by Euzhan Palcy and starring Donald Sutherland, Jürgen Prochnow, Marlon Brando, Janet Suzman, Zakes Mokae and Susan Sarandon. It was written by Colin Welland and Palcy, based upon André Brink 's novel A Dry White Season .
A Dry White Season: Directed by Euzhan Palcy. With Donald Sutherland, Janet Suzman, Zakes Mokae, Jürgen Prochnow. 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 ...
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- Euzhan Palcy
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- Donald Sutherland, Janet Suzman, Zakes Mokae
A white schoolteacher in South Africa gets involved in a black family's struggle for justice after their son is arrested and killed by the police. The film, based on a novel by Andre Brink, explores the apartheid system and the courage of a few white people who defy it.
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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- Euzhan Palcy
- R
- Donald Sutherland
Synopsis. South Africa, 1976. A black boy and white boy, two friends, are happily playing-soccer, then rugby--on a beautifully manicured lawn. Johan (Rowen Elmes) is an adolescent, the son of Benjamin Du Toit, an Afrikaner schoolteacher. Jonathan Ngubene (Bekhithemba Mpofu), about the same age as Johan, is the son of Du Toit's gardener, Gordon.
A Dry White Season is a film based on a novel by André Brink, about a white teacher in apartheid South Africa who defends a black activist. The cast includes Donald Sutherland, Janet Suzman, Marlon Brando, and others, with Euzhan Palcy as the director.
A Dry White Season is a novel by André Brink that exposes the brutality of Apartheid in South Africa through the story of Ben du Toit, an anti-Apartheid activist. The novel was banned in South Africa and inspired several adaptations.
