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Sarafina!

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Sarafina!

Sep 18, 1992

1h 57m

★ 6.1

She was their teacher. They were her hope.

Overview

A Soweto schoolgirl named Sarafina is galvanized to protest apartheid after her teacher is arrested for her activism, leading her to join the student resistance movement.

Genres

Music

Drama

Family

Production Companies

BBC

Vanguard Films

Distant Horizon

Ideal

Les Films Ariane

Videovision Entertainment

Hollywood Pictures

Miramax

Sarafina! Trailers

Cast

Leleti Khumalo

Sarafina

Leleti Khumalo

Whoopi Goldberg

Mary Masembuko

Whoopi Goldberg

John Kani

School Principal

John Kani

Miriam Makeba

Angelina

Miriam Makeba

Mary Twala

Sarafina's Grandmother

Mary Twala

Dumisani Dlamini

Crocodile

Dumisani Dlamini

Mbongeni Ngema

Sabela

Mbongeni Ngema

Tertius Meintjes

Lieutenant Bloem

Tertius Meintjes

Robert Whitehead

Interrogator

Robert Whitehead

Greg Latter

Policeman

Greg Latter

Nicky Rebelo

Soldier

Nicky Rebelo

James Whyle

Soldier

James Whyle

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