FEATURE FILM
THURSDAY, MARCH 28 – 10:30 PM – 1H35 – ALL AUDIENCES
Presentation by and discussion with French director of photography Pierre-William Glenn
Ben du Toit is a school teacher who has always considered himself a caring and rightful man, at least on the individual level. When his gardener’s son is brutally beaten up by the police during a demonstration by black schoolchildren, he starts to realize that his own society is built on a pillar of injustice and exploitation.
This special screening is associated with Friday’s film The State Against Mandela and the Others (Le Procès contre Mandela et les autres) by directors Gilles Porte and Nicolas Champeaux and with Free Master Classes by Pierre-William Glenn, Gilles Porte and Nicolas Champeaux taking place on Thursday, March 28 and Friday, March 29 in VCU’s Institute for Contemporary Art.
CAST & CREW
DIRECTOR Euzhan Palcy
Based on the novel by Andre Brink
DIRECTORS OF PHOTOGRAPHY Pierre-William Glenn, Kelvin Pike
SCREENWRITERS Colin Welland, Euzhan Palcy
PRODUCERS Paula Weinstein, Tim Hampton, Mary Selway
COMPOSER David Grusin
SET DESIGNER Peter James
STARRING Donald Sutherland, Janet Suzman, Zakes Mokae, Jurgen Prochnow, Susan Sarandon, Marlon Brando
TECHNICAL DETAILS
GENRE Drama, Thriller
PRODUCTION LANGUAGE English
NATIONALITY American
PRODUCTION YEAR 1988
FRENCH RELEASE 20/09/1989
RUNNING TIME 1h46min