Kare Kare Zvako: Mother's Day

Jan 21, 2005

0h 30m

★ 8.0

Overview

Drought has struck. Father pushes his wife away from the family dinner of termites. In anger, when mother challenges him, he digs a pit with a brutal purpose, but little does he suspect that Mother can retaliate just as powerfully. Based on an old Shona folk tale and rendered as a musical celebrating a diversity of contemporaray Zimbabwean music, Mother's Day is the newest and most exciting motion picture development to come out of Zimbabwe.

Genres

Drama

Music

Horror

Production Companies

Pangolin Films

Nyerai Films

Kare Kare Zvako: Mother's Day Trailers

Cast

Mother

Consolata Ngwenya

Father

Nicolas Mazenda

Tino

Sasha Dambakushamba

Kuda

Simbarashe Mombemushora

Maidei

Belinda Mapfute

Baby

Jonathan Kalapuka

Dancer

Clayton Gavio

Dancer

Reginald Govha

Dancer

Felix Jaidi

Dancer

Confidence Mawisire

Dancer

Musa Legala

Dancer

Richard Ndlovu

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