A Dry White Season
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9/20/1989Runtime
107 minsOverview
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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A white South African teacher's comfortable world collapses as he seeks answers about a black teenager's death in police custody, pulling him into direct conflict with the machinery of apartheid. It's a confrontation with complicity disguised as ordinariness.
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Donald Sutherland
Ben du Toit
Janet Suzman
Susan du Toit
Zakes Mokae
Stanley Makhaya
Jürgen Prochnow
Captain Stolz
Susan Sarandon
Melanie Bruwer
Marlon Brando
Ian McKenzie
Winston Ntshona
Gordon Ngubene
Thoko Ntshinga
Emily Ngubene
Leonard Maguire
Bruwer
Gerard Thoolen
Colonel Viljoen
Susannah Harker
Suzette du Toit
Rowen Elmes
Johan du Toit
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