Sarafina!
“She was their teacher. They were her hope.”
A Soweto schoolgirl named Sarafina is galvanized to protest apartheid after her teacher is arrested for her activism, leading her to join the student resistance movement.
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Cast
85 people
Leleti Khumalo
Sarafina
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Whoopi Goldberg
Mary Masembuko
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John Kani
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Miriam Makeba
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Mary Twala
Sarafina's Grandmother
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Dumisani Dlamini
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Tertius Meintjes
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James Whyle
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Darrell James Roodt Director · William Nicholson Screenplay Mbongeni Ngema Screenplay
Worldwide gross $8.6M · United States release September 18, 1992 · Produced in South Africa, United Kingdom, United States, France
Box office
Worldwide gross
$8,606,242
Production
BBC
Production
Vanguard Films
Production
Distant Horizon
Production
Ideal
Production
Les Films Ariane
Production
Videovision Entertainment
Production
Hollywood Pictures
Production
Miramax
Production · Studio
Vanguard Productions
Production
South Africa · United Kingdom · United States · France
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Languages
Original language
English
Spoken on screen
English · Zulu
Release dates
United States · September 18, 1992
Theatrical
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