Boesman & Lena / Kino International ; Pathé Image in association with Primedia Pictures ; adapted and directed by John Berry ; producers, François Ivernel, Pierre Rissient.
Publisher:
Kino on Video,
Copyright Date:
2001
Description:
1 videodisc (84 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Danny Glover, Angela Bassett, Willie Jonah. Based on the play by Athol Fugard. Originally released as a motion picture in 2000. A foreign film (France/South Africa). Widescreen and standard versions on opposite sides of disc. Special features: interviews with Danny Glover, Angela Bassett, director John Berry and writer Athol Fugard; theatrical trailer; cast and filmmaker bios.
Summary:
Examines the devastating effects of racism on the human spirit through the progress of one couple's life together under Apartheid, as they are pushed from the bucolic Eden of South African farmlands into a makeshift shelter on the mudflats near Cape Town.
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