A Dry White Season (1989)

Calificación de los usuarios:

6.9/10   

Director:

Euzhan Palcy

Escritores (WGA):

Andre Brink (novel)
Colin Welland (screenplay) ...

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

20 septiembre 1989 (USA)

Género:

Drama | Historia | Suspenso

Plot:

Ben du Toit is a schoolteacher who always has considered himself a man of caring and justice, at least on the individual level...

Plot Keywords:

Police | School | Demonstration | Rugby | Apartheid

Premios:

Nominated for Oscar. Another 1 win & 3 nominations

Comentarios de los usuarios:

we will never be the same now

Reparto

Donald Sutherland	...	Ben du Toit
Janet Suzman	...	Susan du Toit
Zakes Mokae	...	Stanley Makhaya
Jürgen Prochnow	...	Captain Stolz (as Jurgen Prochnow)
Susan Sarandon	...	Melanie Bruwer
Marlon Brando	...	Ian McKenzie
Winston Ntshona	...	Gordon Ngubene
Thoko Ntshinga	...	Emily Ngubene
Leonard Maguire	...	Bruwer
Gerard Thoolen	...	Colonel Viljoen
Susannah Harker	...	Suzette du Toit
Andrew Whaley	...	Chris
Rowen Elmes	...	Johan du Toit
Stella Dickin	...	Susan's Mother
David de Keyser	...	Susan's Father (as David De Keyser)

También conocida como:

Una árida estación blanca (Spain) [es]

Duración:

97 min | West Germany:107 min

País:

USA

Idioma:

Inglés

Color:

Color

Relación de Aspecto:

1.85 : 1

Sonido:

Dolby

Clasificación:

Australia:M | Iceland:16 | Singapore:PG | West Germany:16 | Finland:K-16 | Sweden:15 | UK:15 | USA:R

Locaciones de Filmación:

Pinewood Studios, Iver Heath, Buckinghamshire, England, UK

Compañía:

Davros Films

Errores:

Errores en Geografía: When the camera pulls away from the court house (Harare City Hall) a bus drives past displaying an advertisement for Balkan Bulgarian Airlines, which flew to Zimbabwe, but not to South Africa under apartheid during the 1970s.

Conexiones de Película:

Apareció en The 62nd Annual Academy Awards (1990) (TV)

Banda de Sonido:

YINI KODWA YINI

we will never be the same now

We are pupils in the10th grade in Dumont d'Urville in Normandy (France). We are all sixteen and we have been learning English for six years. We watched the film A dry white season in class and we had to write a review on it.

It is a film shot by Euzhan Palcy in 1997 which is based from a novel by André Brink.

The main characters are Ben du Toit played by Donald Sutherland, Captain Stolz played by Jürgen Prochnow, Stanley played by Zakes Mokae and Gordon played by Winston Ntshona.

The plot deals with apartheid in South Africa in 1976. A naïve history teacher Ben du Toit decides to avenge his gardener's death, Gordon, a black man. He is tortured to death by the white police. Ben becomes aware of the issue of segregation in his country and he sides with the blacks.

We all liked this film because it gave another vision of apartheid, more shocking and violent than the one we had imagined. This film is educative because too many people ignore what white men did to the blacks at that time and even recently. Nowadays, colored people endure discrimination in many countries even if apartheid, slavery have been abolished, so it is a very interesting film, it shows a real and current problem : racism which still exists in our society. We don't know if it can make people's mentalities evolve but it will certainly make people question themselves.

We would recommend this film to our friends because we think people are not informed enough about apartheid.