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Sarafina! is a 1992 musical drama film based on Mbongeni Ngema's 1987 musical of the same name. The film was directed by Darrell Roodt and written by Ngema Mbongeni and William Nicholson, and stars Leleti Khumalo, Miriam Makeba, John Kani, Ngema, and Whoopi Goldberg; Khumalo reprises her role from the stage performance.
A narrator introduces several characters among them the school girl activist Sarafina. Things get out of control when a policeman shoots several pupils in a classroom. Nevertheless, the musical ends with a cheerful farewell show of pupils leaving school, which takes most of act two.
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- Darrell James Roodt
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Currently you are able to watch "Sarafina!" streaming on Pluto TV for free with ads or buy it as download on Apple TV, Amazon Video, Microsoft Store. It is also possible to rent "Sarafina!" on Microsoft Store, Amazon Video, Apple TV online.
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- Darrell James Roodt
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Sep 25, 1992 · The most violent scene in the film shows a group of black schoolchildren pouring gasoline on a black policeman and burning him alive. But the policeman has been revealed as an instrument of apartheid, which apparently means he had it coming to him, and explains the PG-13 instead of the R.
Soweto schoolgirl Sarafina faces prison and torture as she fights for freedom in apartheid-era South Africa. Watch trailers & learn more.
Freedom is coming tomorrow! Whoopi Goldberg leads a class on an uplifting journey to rise against Apartheid.
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In a township of Soweto, a group of students, led by a beautiful and intelligent young girl, Sarafina, mastermind a plot to rise against the apartheid regime by vehemently rejecting the proposal to have Afrikaans as a medium of instruction.
