Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #49741 in DVD
• Released on: 2005-08-23
• Aspect ratio: 1.85:1
• Formats: Closed-captioned, Colour, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
• Original language: English
• Subtitled in: English, Spanish, French
• Dubbed in: French, Spanish
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: 1.00 pounds
• Running time: 113 minutes

Customer Reviews

A movie I remember 20 years after...
I saw this movie only once, in 1988 and never forgot it. This is a deep and meaningful story (a true story if I remember correctly), with outstanding photography, that stand as a testimony of an era: Apartheid.
My English and History teachers thought it was a good movie for a school outing, to raise our awareness of geo-politics, and they couldn't have been more right. I'm French and at the time, I had been learning English for 5 years. My class saw it in the original english version, but that didn't matter; the difficulty of the accent, and therefore reading subtitles took nothing away from its beauty, and its impact.
In 1988, Nelson Mandela was still in prison, and Zola Budd was making the news for allegedly running in South Africa (her motherland) despite the boycott. Apartheid was a hot topic.
This film tells the story of a teenage girl whose mother gets arrested under the 90 day detention law (arrest without charge).
The evil of the regime seen through the eyes of a 13 year old girl, is deeply moving and will touch your soul. 20 years on I remember the soundtrack, I can clearly recall key moments, and the very last scene of the movie. I remember being left stunned in the dark theatre, and looking at my classmates when the lights went back on, us all thinking "that was something"...
Now recalling all this, I want to see this movie again.