Sarafina! 1992

Sarafina!

HD 6.136 117 minutes
The plot centers on students involved in the Soweto Riots, in opposition to the implementation of Afrikaans as the language of instruction in schools. The stage version presents a school uprising similar to the Soweto uprising on June 16, 1976. A narrator introduces several characters among them the school girl activist Sarafina. Things get out of control when a policeman shoots several pupils in a classroom. Nevertheless, the musical ends with a cheerful farewell show of pupils leaving school, which takes most of act two. In the movie version Sarafina feels shame at her mother's (played by Miriam Makeba in the film) acceptance of her role as domestic servant in a white household in apartheid South Africa, and inspires her peers to rise up in protest, especially after her inspirational teacher, Mary Masombuka (played by Whoopi Goldberg in the film version) is imprisoned.

Movie Similars

HD

Three for the Show

1955 Movie
HD

American Dreamz

2006 Movie
HD

The Jungle Book

1967 Movie
HD

Anastasia

1997 Movie
HD

Lantana

2001 Movie
HD

The Harmonists

1997 Movie
HD

Dirty Dancing

2017 Movie
HD

Gasparone

1937 Movie
HD

After the Fall

1974 Movie
HD

Fame

1980 Movie
HD

Leroy

2007 Movie

Movie Recommendations

HD

The Substitute

1996 Movie
HD

Save the Last Dance

2001 Movie
HD

Ruthless People

1986 Movie
HD

Boys on the Side

1995 Movie
HD

Interstellar

2014 Movie
HD

2001: A Space Odyssey

1968 Movie
HD

A Quiet Place

2018 Movie
HD

La La Land

2016 Movie
HD

Knives Out

2019 Movie
HD

Pulp Fiction

1994 Movie
HD

Barbie

2023 Movie
HD

Forrest Gump

1994 Movie
HD

Parasite

2019 Movie