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A World Apart is a 1988 anti-apartheid drama film directed by Chris Menges, and starring Barbara Hershey, David Suchet, Jeroen Krabbé, Paul Freeman, Tim Roth and Jodhi May. Written by Shawn Slovo, it is based on the lives of Slovo's parents, Ruth First and Joe Slovo.
Jun 17, 1988 · A World Apart: Directed by Chris Menges. With Jodhi May, Jeroen Krabbé, Barbara Hershey, Nadine Chalmers. 1963. Thirteen year old Molly Roth, the eldest of three offspring of Gus and Diana Roth, lives a carefree life as part of the affluent white minority in South Africa.
“A World Apart” is both political and personal - a view of a revolutionary as the middle-class mother of a normal 13-year-old girl. The girl’s name is Molly (Jodhi May), and the film opens with episodes from her typical childhood in an affluent white South African community.
Molly (Jodhi May), a white teenage girl living in Johannesburg during the 1960s, finds her life turned upside down when her leftist parents become targets of the pro-apartheid South African ...
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Molly Roth, 13 years old, is the daughter of leftist parents, and she must piece together what's happening around her when her father disappears one night, barely evading arrest, and, not long after, her mother is detained by the authorities.
Oct 21, 2009 · World Apart, A (1988) -- (Movie Clip) Why Don't We Take Him? In 1963 Johannesburg, Molly (Jodhi May) and Yvonne (Nadine Chalmers) are collected at school by June (Kate Fitzpatrick) who steers them clear of an ugly accident, in director Chris Menges' A World Apart, 1988.
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