For CRY THE BELOVED COUNTRY you could contact ANANT or NILESH SINGH in
Durban on tel. 27 (0)31 204 6000, fax 202 5000; e-mail
info@videovision.co.za <mailto:info@videovision.co.za>
regards
JOHNBAD
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> X-posted from h-afrteach
>
> Are you aware that there is a recently made South African film
based on
Cry
> the Beloved Country, but set against the background of today's
South
> Africa's policy of truth and reconciliation?
> The director is Darrel James Roodt, the first South African
film-maker to
> make a film inside South Africa with a clear anti-apartheid
message ("A
> Place of Weeping"), way back inte 1980s. He has also made
"Sarafina",
> screened at the Cannes film festival in 1992.
> It might be worthwhile to supplement the teaching on Paton's book
with
this
> link to today. I am not sure of the distributor, but New Line
Cinema in
Los
> Angeles should perhaps know. They are the producers of his latest
film,
> "Dangerous Ground", a kind of dope action movie set in
Johannesburg.
> From: John Metzler <metzler@pilot.msu.edu
<mailto:metzler@pilot.msu.edu <mailto:metzler@pilot.msu.edu> >
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