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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 ...
Reviews. A Dry White Season. Roger Ebert September 22, 1989. Tweet. Now streaming on: Powered by JustWatch. When you are safe and well-off, and life has fallen into a soothing routine, there is a tendency to look the other way when trouble happens - especially if it hasn't happened to you.
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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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. With this bracing drama, made at the climax of the anti-apartheid movement, director Euzhan Palcy issued a devastating indictment of South Africa’s racist government—and made history in the process, becoming the first black woman to direct a Hollywood studio film.
A Dry White Season. 1989 · 1 hr 47 min. R. Drama. A teacher’s indifference to the cruelty of apartheid in 1970s South Africa changes drastically when a cold-blooded murder compels him to seek justice. Subtitles: English. Starring: Marlon Brando Donald Sutherland Winston Ntshona Janet Suzman Susan Sarandon. Directed by: Euzhan Palcy.
