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Sarafina!

60% | Sep 18, 1992
Music Drama Family

The plot centers on students involved in the Soweto Riots, in opposition to the implementation of Afrikaans as the language of instruction in schools. The stage version presents a school uprising similar to the Soweto uprising on June 16, 1976. A narrator introduces several characters among them the school girl activist Sarafina. Things get out of control when a policeman shoots several pupils in a classroom. Nevertheless, the musical ends with a cheerful farewell show of pupils leaving school, which takes most of act two. In the movie version Sarafina feels shame at her mother's (played by Miriam Makeba in the film) acceptance of her role as domestic servant in a white household in apartheid South Africa, and inspires her peers to rise up in protest, especially after her inspirational teacher, Mary Masombuka (played by Whoopi Goldberg in the film version) is imprisoned.

Top Billed Cast

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Leleti Khumalo
Sarafina
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Whoopi Goldberg
Mary Masembuko
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John Kani
School Principal
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Miriam Makeba
Angelina
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Mary Twala
Sarafina's Grandmother

Featured Crew

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Darrell James Roodt
Director
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Stanley Myers
Original Music Composer
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Mark Vicente
Director of Photography
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David M. Thompson
Producer
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Mbongeni Ngema
Theatre Play
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Mbongeni Ngema
Screenplay
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William Nicholson
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Kirk D'Amico
Executive Producer
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Tania Jenkins
Line Producer
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Sudhir Pragjee
Executive Producer
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Anant Singh
Producer
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Sanjeev Singh
Executive Producer

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