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Sarafina! is a 1992 musical drama film based on Mbongeni Ngema's 1987 musical of the same name. The film was directed by Darrell Roodt and written by Ngema and William Nicholson, and stars Leleti Khumalo, Miriam Makeba, John Kani, Ngema, and Whoopi Goldberg; Khumalo reprises her role from the stage performance.
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.
Mar 28, 2020 · Sarafina! premiered on Broadway on 28 January 1988, at the Cort Theatre, and closed on 2 July 1989, after 597 performances and 11 previews. The musical was conceived and directed by...
Freedom is coming tomorrow! Whoopi Goldberg leads a class on an uplifting journey to rise against Apartheid.
Soweto schoolgirl Sarafina faces prison and torture as she fights for freedom in apartheid-era South Africa. Watch trailers & learn more.
Sarafina (Leleti Khumalo) is a young black South African struggling for freedom during the apartheid. While she has remained relatively silent in her opposition of the racist government in her ...
Sep 25, 1992 · “Sarafina!” shows black children committing murder, and lacks either the courage to condemn them for it, or the courage to say it was justified. Here is a movie that stands up to be counted, and loses count.
