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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.
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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- 1988-06-17
A World Apart. 112 minutes ‧ PG ‧ 1988. Roger Ebert. July 8, 1988. 5 min read. Barbara Hershey in "A World Apart." “A World Apart” was written by a woman who grew up in South Africa in the 1960s, while her parents were involved in the anti-apartheid movement, and it is very much a daughter’s story. Even though her parents were brave ...
A World Apart may refer to: A World Apart (TV series), a 1970–1971 daytime drama series on ABC. A World Apart (1988 film), an anti-apartheid drama. A World Apart (2024 film), an Italian film. A World Apart (book), a 1950 book on the Gulag by Gustaw Herling.
Director: Chris Menges. 1988. Film4 Archive. Set in Johannesburg in 1963, A World Apart is based on screenwriter Shawn Slovo's own parents' lives as ANC activists. It tells the story of a frantic, politicised mother (Barbara Hershey), and her relationship with her young daughter (Jodhi May).
A White enclave in Johannesburg, South Africa, in the 1960s. Molly Roth, 13 years old, is the daughter of leftist parents, and she must piece together what's happening around her when her father disappears one night, barely evading arrest, and, not long after, her mother is detained by the authorities.
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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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