Dilemma ( A World of Strangers )

Dilemma (DVD) (*)

$21.99

Alternate Title: A World of Strangers
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
Danish ( Subtitles )
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )

Product Origin/Format:
Denmark ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
88 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Behind the scenes
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 1962 and produced in:
Denmark ( Scandinavia, Iceland )
South Africa ( Africa, Middle East )

Directed By:
Henning Carlsen

Written By:
Henning Carlsen
Nadine Gordimer

Actors:
Evelyn Frank ..... Cecil
Marijke Haakman ..... Toby
Ivan Jackson
Zakes Mokae

Synopsis:

Danish director Henning Carlsen had his own 'dilemma' when on location for this drama about apartheid in South Africa -- he had to film under the pretext of doing a documentary on music because the government at that time would have forbidden this project. The pretext also accounts for a sequence on a black South African musical. The story begins when Toby (Ivan Jackson), a young English businessman, arrives in South Africa to take charge of a publishing firm. He knows little about apartheid and so at first sees no contradiction in developing a relationship with an elite, upper-class white woman and with a woman dedicated to fighting apartheid. But as Toby makes friends with one of the black South Africans (Zaku Mokae), and as he registers both the subtle and more obvious, deep-seated racial prejudices of the minority white population, some of the truth of the oppression here begins to dawn. That is brought to a head when tragedy strikes.

A visiting Englishman to South Africa realises the dilemma and pain of the apartheid system through his friendship with a white girl and a black man, seeing the current impossibilities and the potential of what might be with change.

This product was added to our catalog on Wednesday 18 March, 2009.

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