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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...
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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
Admirable politics, presented in a complex and sensitive manner, is certainly reason enough to recommend A World Apart. But much of the power of this film lies in the fact that it is visually...
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 ...
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...
A World Apart is a 1988 film based on the life of Ruth First, the South African anti-apartheid activist and scholar who was one of 156 Congress Alliance members found guilty in the treason trials of the late 1950s and early 60s.
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