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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.

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n/a 117 min

Type:

Movie

Country:

South Africa, United Kingdom, United States of America, France

Genre:

Music, Drama, Family

Release:

1992-09-18

Year:

1992

Director:

Darrell James Roodt

Production:

BBC, Vanguard Films, Distant Horizon, Ideal, Les Films Ariane, Videovision Entertainment, Hollywood Pictures, Miramax

Cast:

Leleti Khumalo, Whoopi Goldberg, John Kani, Miriam Makeba, Mary Twala, Dumisani Dlamini, Mbongeni Ngema, Tertius Meintjes, Robert Whitehead, Greg Latter

Sarafina!

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