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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 1989 drama thriller film about a white South African teacher who helps his black gardener find his jailed son and exposes the apartheid regime. IMDb provides cast and crew information, user and critic reviews, trivia, goofs, quotes, soundtracks and more.
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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
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 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.
A 1989 drama directed by Euzhan Palcy, the first black woman to direct a Hollywood studio film, about apartheid in South Africa. Based on a novel by André Brink, the film stars Donald Sutherland as a white teacher who joins the anti-apartheid movement after his gardener is killed.
