Sarafina! Movie Review 1992

Part coming-of-age saga, part political drama, part musical, and all emotionally powerful. Sarafina is a young girl in a township school in Soweto, South Africa in the mid-'70s, gradually coming into a political awakening amid the Soweto riots. Khumalo recreates her stage role as the glowing and defiant Sarafina with both Goldberg and Makeba good in their roles as Sarafina's outspoken and inspirational teacher and her long-suffering mother, respectively. Adapted from Ngema's stage musical.

Distribution

Buena Vista Home Entertainment, 500 S. Buena Vista St., Burbank, CA 91521-1120, Toll-free: 800-723-4763, URL: http://www.bvhe.com

Available on VHS
Running time 98 minutes.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Musical Drama, Apartheid, Adapted from a Play, Coming of Age, Africa

Screenplay

Mbongeni Ngema, William Nicholson

Cast

Leleti Khumalo, Whoopi Goldberg, Miriam Makeba, John Kani, Mbongeni Ngema

Director

Darrell Roodt

Music

Stanley Myers

Producer

Anant Singh, Hollywood Pictures, Miramax Films