A World apart [videorecording] / Atlantic Entertainment and British Screen present a Working Title production ; director, Chris Menges ; producer, Sarah Radclyffe ; writer, Shawn Slovo.
DVD; widescreen format. Originally produced as a motion picture in 1988. Barbara Hershey, David Suchet, Jeroen Krabbe, Paul Freeman, Tim Roth and Jodhi May.
Summary:
Set in South Africa in 1963, the story concerns an idealistic journalist Diana Roth who defies the government and becomes the first woman arrested under the 90-day Detention Act-- both a story of government abuse and a look at one mother's neglect of her family because of her involvement with a larger cause. Based on a true story.
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