Yesterday

Sep 3, 2004

1h 36m

★ 7.6

Powerless to change the past . . . She lived to change the future.

Overview

After falling ill, Yesterday learns that she is HIV positive. With her husband in denial and young daughter to tend to, Yesterday's one goal is to live long enough to see her child go to school.

Genres

Drama

Production Companies

HBO Films

Dv8

Exciting Films

Distant Horizon

Yesterday Trailers

Cast

Yesterday

Leleti Khumalo

Yesterday's husband

Kenneth Khambula

Teacher

Harriet Lenabe

Beauty (Yesterday's daughter)

Lihle Mvelase

Clinic Doctor

Camilla Walker

Village Woman

Mmamputhi Khasu

Village Woman

Charmaine Kweyama

Road Worker

Aletta Majola

Taxi Driver

Elliot Makhubo

Man at Clinic

Jacob Makgoba

Tall Teacher

Harriet Manamela

Sangoma at Hospital

Thandi Matshoba

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