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A narrator introduces several characters among them the school girl activist Sarafina. Things get out of control when a policeman shoots several pupils in a classroom. Nevertheless, the musical ends with a cheerful farewell show of pupils leaving school, which takes most of act two.
- Darrell James Roodt
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- 2
Sarafina! is a 1992 musical drama film based on Mbongeni Ngema's 1987 musical of the same name. The film was directed by Darrell Roodt and written by Ngema Mbongeni and William Nicholson, and stars Leleti Khumalo, Miriam Makeba, John Kani, Ngema, and Whoopi Goldberg; Khumalo reprises her role from the stage performance.
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- Darrell James Roodt
- PG-13
- 17
Soweto schoolgirl Sarafina faces prison and torture as she fights for freedom in apartheid-era South Africa. Watch trailers & learn more.
Sep 25, 1992 · Ebert criticizes the film adaptation of the South African musical Sarafina! for its confused and misleading narrative, its lack of moral clarity, and its incoherent dialogue. He praises the performances of Leleti Khumalo and Whoopi Goldberg, but questions the film's political message and its rating.
Sarafina! is a movie based on a stage play by Mbongeni Ngema, featuring Whoopi Goldberg as a teacher who inspires her students to protest against apartheid in South Africa. The film depicts the Soweto Uprising of 1976, when police shot and killed several schoolchildren.
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Sarafina (Leleti Khumalo) is a young black South African struggling for freedom during the apartheid. While she has remained relatively silent in her opposition of the racist...
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- Musical, Drama
- PG-13