A Dry White Season 1989

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R
Drama Mystery

During the 1976 Soweto uprising, a white school teacher's life and values are threatened when he asks questions about the death of a young black boy who died in police custody.

Release Date 1989-09-20
Runtime 1h 47m
Directors Euzhan Palcy, Kelvin Pike, Pierre-William Glenn, Alan Tomkins
Producers Tim Hampton, Mary Selway, Paula Weinstein
Writers Colin Welland, André P. Brink, Euzhan Palcy

This film written by an old Afrikaans author called Andre Brink and centers around a political activist. Who was a political freedom fighter trying to get the apartheid system ended and South Africa to be a total democratic society. Steve Biko , was a hero and is still one today. And a martyr at the same time as he was allegedly thrown off the Police Building after being tortured.

Marlon Brando plays the Lawyer !

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