Watch: A Dry White Season 1989 123movies, Full Movie Online – Ben du Toit (Donald Sutherland) is a schoolteacher who always has considered himself a man of caring and justice, at least on the individual level. When his gardener, Stanley’s (Zakes Mokae’s) son, Jonathan (Bekhithemba Mpofu), is brutally beaten up by the Police at a demonstration by black school children, he gradually begins to realize his own society is built on a pillar of injustice and exploitation..
Plot: During the 1976 Soweto uprising, a white school teacher’s life and values are threatened when he asks questions about the death of a young black boy who died in police custody.
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Accurate but incomplete portrayal of the old South Africa
If you want to understand what the old South Africa could be like at its worst, this movie accurately portrays it. Well acted and only slightly over-dramatized, it gives you the sense of how the ruling culture was blind to its own injustices. Those who oppose the main character from within his own family make some valid points, and that makes it all the more chilling.As someone who lived in South Africa until shortly before the year this movie is set in (and was forced to leave because I opposed apartheid), I can’t fault the authenticity of this movie but I want to caution viewers not to form all your opinions of white South Africans from this type of film. There is a good side to every culture, but it is harder to portray and doesn’t always make great box office.
If this movie leaves you hating anyone, you are taking away the wrong message. If it leaves you realizing this could happen anywhere, and ordinary good people can easily find themselves on the wrong side in situations like this, that is the right message to take away.
Break thru cinema
Euzhan Palcy is a great director. She has broken many barriers for Black Female Filmmakers. Most of her work has been political with strong impact, as this film is. Never before have we seen such a story told through the eyes of a black woman and done so well that she received critical acclaim.I have to disagree with Mr. Trevor Moses that this was an awful film. Also, Mr. Moses get your facts straight. The director of this film Ms. Palcy was not a racist hence the amazing cast. And one last thing these actors did this movie for almost nothing, including Robert Redford who did it for FREE, all because they saw her vision. FYI check out www.euzhanpalcy.com
Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 46 min (106 min)
Budget 0
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated R
Genre Drama, Thriller
Director Euzhan Palcy
Writer André P. Brink, Colin Welland, Euzhan Palcy
Actors Donald Sutherland, Janet Suzman, Zakes Mokae
Country United States
Awards Nominated for 1 Oscar. 2 wins & 9 nominations total
Production Company N/A
Website N/A
Sound Mix Dolby Stereo
Aspect Ratio 1.85 : 1
Camera J-D-C Cameras and Lenses
Laboratory DeLuxe, Hollywood (CA), USA (prints), Rank Film Laboratories, Denham, UK (processing)
Film Length N/A
Negative Format 35 mm
Cinematographic Process Spherical
Printed Film Format 35 mm