Sarafina! [videorecording] / Hollywood Pictures and Miramax Films present an Anant Signh production ; a Distant Horizon and Ideal Films presentation in association with Videovision Enterprises, Les Films Ariane, Vanguard Films and the BBC ; written by William Nicholson and Mbongeni Ngema ; producer for the BBC, David Thompson ; produced by Anant Singh ; directed by Darrell James Roodt.
Based on the play by Mbongeni Ngema. Whoopi Goldberg, Miriam Makeba, John Kani, Mbongeni Ngema, Leleti Khumalo.
Summary:
Sarafina is a schoolgirl at school in Soweto, South Africa. She learns only the history of the whites in South Africa but her history teacher (Goldberg) secretly teaches the students to be proud of their heritage and make a stand against apartheid. The film features beautiful South African music, choirs and percussion.
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