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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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A World Apart. 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...
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- Chris Menges
- PG
- Barbara Hershey
Top Critics. All Audience. Verified Audience. Pam Mitchell Sojourner. Has anyone ever captured that delicate tightrope walk between child and adult as poignantly and delicately as Jodhi May does in...
A World Apart is a 1988 anti-apartheid drama film directed by Chris Menges, and starring Barbara Hershey, David Suchet, Jeroen Krabbé, Paul Freeman, Tim Roth and Jodhi May. Written by Shawn Slovo, it is based on the lives of Slovo's parents, Ruth First and Joe Slovo.
113 minutes. Certificate: PG. Original Title: A World Apart. The true story of a journalist imprisoned for her political views in South Africa, as seen through the eyes of her 13-year-old...
Jun 17, 1988 · 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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Year: 1988. Original title: A World Apart. Synopsis: Apartheid threatens to tear her from her 13-year-old daughter when the first white woman - a journalist - is arrested and put in solitary in 1963 for defying the South African government.You can watch A World Apart through on the platforms:
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