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“A World Apart” is both political and personal – a view of a revolutionary as the middle-class mother of a normal 13-year-old girl. The girl’s name is Molly ( Jodhi May ), and the film opens with episodes from her typical childhood in an affluent white South African community.
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The movie now develops its story through the device of...
- The Mission
Molly (Jodhi May), a white teenage girl living in Johannesburg during the 1960s, finds her life turned upside down when her leftist parents become targets of the pro-apartheid South African ...
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- Chris Menges
- PG
- Barbara Hershey
In the 1960's Johannesburg, the 13 year-old Molly (Jodhi May) tries to understand the world around her, a world of segregation where whites have everything and blacks don't have anything but following the racist laws created by the British where rights are denied, no public meetings are allowed, protests are deemed illegal and people are sent ...
Sep 10, 2012 · Like Maisie in What Maisie Knew, 13-year-old Molly (May) is walled off from much of the high passion of the adult world, but a casualty of the fallout. With her communist father (Krabbé) on the...
A World Apart: Directed by Chris Menges. With Jodhi May, Jeroen Krabbé, Barbara Hershey, Nadine Chalmers. 1963. Thirteen year old Molly Roth, the eldest of three offspring of Gus and Diana Roth, lives a carefree life as part of the affluent white minority in South Africa.
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- Drama
- Chris Menges
- 1988-06-17
Jun 17, 1988 · ''A World Apart'' is about one white woman, Diana Roth (Barbara Hershey), who, in working clandestinely to correct what she sees to be an intolerable political situation, nearly wrecks...
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A World Apart Review. 1963. The Roth family are far from content with the status quo in Zimbabwe. They take it upon themselves to protest against the apartheid that rules their society, only to...