Sarafina! (1992)
She was their teacher. They were her hope.
A Soweto schoolgirl named Sarafina is galvanized to protest apartheid after her teacher is arrested for her activism, leading her to join the student resistance movement.
- Date of release
- 1992-09-18
- TMDB
- 6.2 / 10 (49)
- Runtime
- 1h 57m
- Genres
- Music, Drama, Family
- Director
- Darrell James Roodt
Casting
- Leleti Khumalo — Sarafina
- Whoopi Goldberg — Mary Masembuko
- John Kani — School Principal
- Miriam Makeba — Angelina
- Mary Twala — Sarafina's Grandmother
- Dumisani Dlamini — Crocodile
- Mbongeni Ngema — Sabela
- Tertius Meintjes — Lieutenant Bloem
- Robert Whitehead — Interrogator
- Greg Latter — Policeman
- Nicky Rebelo — Soldier
- James Whyle — Soldier
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