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A World Apart
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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
Brand: TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT
EAN: 9780792867913
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 0792867912
Item Dimensions: 100
Label: MGM (Video & DVD)
Languages: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 SurroundEnglish (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), French (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 2.0 SurroundSpanish (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround
Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)
MPN: 1008763
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: MGM (Video & DVD)
Region Code: 1
Release Date: August 23, 2005
Running Time: 113 minutes
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Theatrical Release Date: June 17, 1988
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Editorial Review:
Based on a true story this "haunting deeply moving film" (Los Angeles Times) earned the Grand Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival. With a "strikingly forceful performance" (New York) by Barbara Hershey this potent account of personal and political turmoil brims with "emotion and radiant intelligence" (The New Yorker)!South Africa 1963. Communist Gus Roth (Jeroen Krabbe) is forced to flee Johannesburg to escape arrest leaving his activist wife Diana (Hershey) to continue their crusade against apartheid. But when Diana is wrenched from her three daughters and jailed under the notorious 90-day Detention Act she and her family face the ultimate sacrifice in the fight for freedom.System Requirements:Running Time: 113 Min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA Rating: PG UPC: 027616927552 Manufacturer No: 1008763
Customer Reviews
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Rating: - Good Intentions Are Not Sufficient
This is a riveting movie concerning a family of Communists who unwittingly did incredible damage in South Africa during the early 1960s. It is based loosely on the real life experiences of Joe Slovo and Ruth First and their daughter, Shawn Slovo who wrote the script of "A World Apart." The system of apartheid was evil and most certainly had to be eradicated. Unfortunately, the doctrine of Marxist class warfare and near blind hatred of the oppressors will eventually cause more harm than good. ... Read More
Rating: - A journey back in time
This is truly a journey back in time to a sad period in the worlds history. It is a great coming of age story for Molly, the 13 year old daughter of anti aparheid activist parents.
Rating: - aaaaaah ~ Humanity.
HERSHEY is eviscerating as the victim of this quaint and still ever-present 'flick' of society.
Something to be watched and witnessed over and over again considering today's climate.
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Rating: - Barbara Hershey is Diana Roth
The most powerful movie about the monstruosity and the unhuman injustices of this white and racist regime in South Africa, called Apartheid. The action takes place in the 60's and the heroes are a couple of journalists risking their lives to fight it, writing burning articles. The husband is forced to leave the country and her wife, Diana Roth (wonderful Barbara Hershey) is arrested and convicted, with no trial or judgment.
The character spends most of the movie's running time between four walls ... Read More
Rating:  - Sacrifices For Justice
Barbara Hershey stars in this true life story of a white South African journalist who sacrifices her self and her family to try to bring an end to the injustices of Apartheid in 1960's South Africa. With her husband having fled the country, Hershey finds herself arrested under the Ninety Day Detention Act, leaving her 3 daughters in the care of her mother. It has a particularly hard effect on her sensitive oldest daughter, played by Jodhi May, who realizes more of what is going on to her family and ... Read More
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