Wednesday, October 06, 2010

Oct 6th
A Dry White Season**
US 1989. MGM. 107m.

Soweto, 1976: a white schoolteacher unwisely fights for justice after his gardener is tortured and murdered by the security police.
Powerful if simplistic indictment of the Apartheid regime which lags in the last hour after Brando's absorbing cameo as a human rights lawyer.

Written by: Colin Welland, Euzhan Palcy, from the novel by Andre Brink.
Producer: Paula Weinstein.
Director: Euzhan Palcy.
Starring: Donald Sutherland, Janet Suzman, Jurgen Prochnow, Marlon Brando, Susan Sarandon, Winston Ntshona, Zakes Mokae, Michael Gambon, Ronald Pickup, Richard Wilson.
Photography: Kevin Pike, Pierce-William Glenn.
Music: Dave Grusin, Hugh Masekela.

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