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- 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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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. Some of Molly's White friends turn against ...
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.
- (1.9K)
- Drama
- Chris Menges
- 1988-06-17
“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.
Plot. Set in Johannesburg in 1963, the film examines the abrupt ending of 13-year-old Molly's blithe childhood when her father, a member of the South African Communist Party, flees into exile. Ostracised by her peers, Molly draws closer to her mother who is part of the campaign against apartheid.
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:
- (219)
- United Kingdom
- Peter Biziou
- Chris Menges
Overview. 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.
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...
- (11)
- Drama
- PG
