A Dry White Season
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Actor: Donald Sutherland, Jürgen Prochnow, Janet Suzman, Susan Sarandon, Zakes MokaeBrand: Sony
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); English (Original Language)
Format: Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 107 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-11-08
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
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Movie Review: Apartheid tragedies
Summary: 5 Stars
In the most disturbing drama based on André Brink's novel A DRY WHITE SEASON, Donald Sutherand stars as a South African high school history teacher. Susan Sarandon is a British newspaperwoman working in that country. Marlon Brando has a minor role as an attorney who, for Sutherland's sake, takes the government and police to court, presents overwhelming evidence of massive abuse by authorities but loses the case.
The story opens with a protest in Soweto in which children as young as 10 participate. When the crowd of peaceful but vociferous sign-holding demonstrators refuse to disperse, a militia-like police force fires tear gas cannisters among them. These are picked up and thrown back at the cops who respond with indiscriminate rifle fire. Many are killed including several youngsters at the front of the crowd.
Sutherland gets involved when he learns that the son of his gardener of 15 years is among the many missing. Eventually they're told the boy has died and is already buried. The father never gets the body back.
Thus begins a string of atrocities perpetrated by one brutal police captain, played by Jürgen Prochnow. Sutherland, Sarandon and Stanley (Zakes Mokae), their native contact in Soweto gather affidavits from victims tortured by police and try to find a way to get these papers out of the country and to the media.
The teacher pays dearly for his activism. He's fired for being a traitor to whites, his wife and daughter leave him and the girl actually betrays him twice, resulting first in the bombing of his garage and then in something far worse. The story ends unresolved, as in 1989 the struggle against the exploitative injustice of apartheid was still ongoing.
The outrage I felt at witnessing reenactments of so many crimes committed by Afrikaaners upon their native countrymen, women and children stayed with me long after the credits finished rolling. By all means, see A DRY WHITE SEASON, but be prepared to come away from this experience equally revolted and angered.
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