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
- Leleti KhumaloSarafina
- Whoopi GoldbergMary Masembuko
- John KaniSchool Principal
- Miriam MakebaAngelina
- Mary TwalaSarafina's Grandmother
- Dumisani DlaminiCrocodile
- Mbongeni NgemaSabela
- Tertius MeintjesLieutenant Bloem
- Robert WhiteheadInterrogator
- Greg LatterPoliceman
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- Darrell James RoodtDirector
- Mbongeni NgemaScreenplay
- William NicholsonScreenplay
- Mark VicenteDirector of Photography
- Stanley MyersOriginal Music Composer
- David HeitnerEditor
- Peter HollywoodEditor
- Sarah ThomasEditor
- David M. ThompsonProducer
- Anant SinghProducer
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