Sarafina! (film)
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Sarafina! | |
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Directed by | Darrell James Roodt |
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Produced by | Anant Singh |
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Cinematography | Mark Vicente |
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Music by |
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Running time | 98 minutes |
Countries | United States South Africa United Kingdom France |
Language | English |
Box office | $8.6 million (South Africa/US) |
Sarafina! is a 1992
An international co-production of South Africa, the United States, France, and the UK, the film premiered on 11 May 1992, at the Cannes Film Festival.
Plot
The plot focuses on students involved in the
The character Sarafina (
Cast
- Whoopi Goldberg as Mary Masombuka
- Miriam Makeba as Angelina
- John Kani as School Principal
- Mbongeni Ngema as Sabela
- Leleti Khumalo as Sarafina
- Dumisani Dlamini as Crocodile
Production
Filming
Producer Anant Singh acquired the film rights to the Broadway musical Sarafina! After no Hollywood studio was willing to finance it, Singh raised the funds himself, with the
The film was shot on location at
In the
Reception
Accolades
The film was screened out of competition at the 1992 Cannes Film Festival, where it was greeted with a standing ovation.[6][3] Years later, Whoopi Goldberg mentioned on The Daily Show with Trevor Noah (who said the film was a hit in South Africa), that the ‘92 LA rebellion happened at the same time that Sarafina! was released which hampered the film's chance of success in the United States.[7] The film holds a 60% score on Rotten Tomatoes.[8]
Release
Miramax Films acquired the domestic rights to Sarafina! in February 1992 after seeing 40 minutes of footage; in turn, Miramax licensed those rights to Disney (with its subsidiary, Hollywood) after the film was screened at Cannes.[3] The film was released on 18 September 1992. Sarafina! was re-released in South Africa on 16 June 2006 to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the Soweto uprising in Soweto. The re-mastered director's cut is not very different from the original, except for the inclusion of one scene that was cut from the original, between Leleti Khumalo (Sarafina) and Miriam Makeba (Sarafina's mother), which includes a musical number "Thank You Mama".
Box office
Sarafina! grossed $7,306,242 in the United States and Canada.[9] It was the fourth-highest grossing film in South Africa for the year with a gross of $1.33 million.[10]
Notes
- ^ Since the acquisition of Miramax by ViacomCBS (now known as Paramount Global) on April 3, 2020, Paramount Pictures owns the US rights to the film.
References
- ^ "Sarafina! (1992)". AFI Catalog of Feature Films. Retrieved 14 October 2021.
- ^ "Sarafina! (1992)". Swedish Film Database. Retrieved 14 October 2021.
- ^ a b c d e "MOVIES : 'Sarafina!' in a Brave New World : Five years ago, the anti-apartheid musical appealed to the emotions; now comes the film, which also taps into the mind". Los Angeles Times. 13 September 1992. Retrieved 16 September 2021.
- S2CID 214194976.
- ^ "Search". www.filmratings.com. Retrieved 16 September 2021.
- ^ "Festival de Cannes: Sarafina". Festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 9 September 2017.
- ^ "The Lullaby review". Cinema76. Retrieved 16 September 2021.
- ^ Sarafina! (1992), retrieved 4 March 2020
- ^ Sarafina! at Box Office Mojo
- ^ "South African top 10 1992". Screen International. 29 January 1993. p. 27.
External links
- Sarafina! at IMDb
- Sarafina! at Rotten Tomatoes