Dry White Season, A (1989) - (Movie Clip) Away With Afrikaans!

Name: Dry White Season, A (1989) -- (Movie Clip) Away With Afrikaans!
Uploaded: 2015-10-12T00:00:00-04:00
Duration: 3 min 25 s
Description: Director Euzhan Palcys careful recreation of a representative incident of the Soweto uprising of 1976, with characters Jonathan and Robert (Bekhithemba Mpofu, Tinashe Makoni) in a protest against the teaching of the Afrikaans language, in A Dry White Season, 1989, from a novel by Andrè Brink.

Director Euzhan Palcy’s careful recreation of a representative incident of the Soweto uprising of 1976, with characters Jonathan and Robert (Bekhithemba Mpofu, Tinashe Makoni) in a protest against the teaching of the Afrikaans language, in A Dry White Season, 1989, from a novel by Andrè Brink.

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