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Skin (2008) (DVD) (*)

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Screened, competed or awarded at:
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )

Product Origin/Format:
United Kingdom ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
107 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.78:1)

Special Features:
Deleted Scenes
Interactive Menu
Making Of
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 2008 and produced in:
South Africa ( Africa, Middle East )
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )

Directed By:
Anthony Fabian

Written By:
Helen Crawley
Anthony Fabian

Actors:
Zoea Alberts ..... Shower Girl
Nomathamsanga Baleka ..... Factory Worker's Friend
Graeme Bloch ..... Bailiff
Ruaan Bok ..... Young Henry
Ben Botha ..... Dawie
Hannes Brummer ..... Leon Laing
Charlotte Butler ..... Woman 2
Tongai Arnold Chirisa ..... Young Priest
Onida Cowan ..... Miss Uys
Jeremy Crutchley ..... WNN Reporter
Lauren Das Neves ..... Elize
Jose Domingos ..... Male Journalist #1
Terri Ann Eckstein ..... Elsie Laing
Nomkhosi Gidigidi ..... Maid in Pretoria
Jacques Gombault ..... Bearded Teacher
Kyle Grant ..... French Boy
Jakkie Groenewald ..... White Foreman
Lourens Groenewald ..... Willy Meyer
Nicole Holme ..... Miss Ludik
Danny Keogh ..... Van Tonder
Tony Kgoroge ..... Petrus Zwane
Alice Krige ..... Sannie Laing
Charmaine Kweyama ..... Fat Civil Servant
Mpho Lekalakala ..... Swazi Cop 1
Matthew Lotter ..... Abusive Teen
Gladys Mahlangu ..... Sangoma
Bongani Masondo ..... Henry Laing
Simon Mdohki ..... Joseph
Stephen Mofokeng ..... Black Gardener
Tumi Morake ..... Thembi
Sam Neill ..... Abraham Laing
Ivy Nkutha ..... Drunk Woman
Nomhlé Nkyonyeni ..... Jenny Zwane
Burger Nortje ..... Fat Boy
Sophie Okonedo ..... Sandra Laing
Jonathan Pienaar ..... Van Niekerk
Hector Rabopaphe ..... Swazi Cop 2
Ella Ramangwane ..... Young Sandra
Fiona Ramsey ..... Woman at Church
Tiaan Rautenbach ..... Tall Policeman
Roland Read ..... Classmate
Nicole Regelous ..... Female Journalist 1
Dan Robbertse ..... Factory Forman
Duan Saayman ..... Cobus
Stacey Sachs ..... Thin Secretary
Elizabeth Serunye ..... Woman in shop
Saint Seseli ..... Black Clerk
Malusi Skenjana ..... Minivan Driver
Valesika Smith ..... Factory Worker
Andre Stoltz ..... White Clerk
Danie Struwig ..... Male Journalist #2
Elriza Swanepoel ..... Tiny Woman
Jonathan Taylor ..... Sound Recordist
Carel Trichardt ..... Magistrate
Leana Truitsman ..... Annie
Anna-Mart van der Merwe ..... Anna Roux
Karien Van Der Merwe ..... Nurse Beukes
Gordon Van Rooyen ..... Judge Galgut
Cobus Venter ..... Johann
Morne Visser ..... Dr Sparks
Drikus Volschenk ..... Forced Removal Policeman
Kate-Lyn Von Meyer ..... Young Elsie
Khalem Willet ..... Adriaan Laing
Faniswa Yisa ..... Nora

Synopsis:

A dark-skinned girl born to white South African parent attempts to explore her identity in the era of apartheid as her government, her parents, and society as a whole struggle with what it means to the black child of Caucasian descent in a nation deeply divided by race. The year is 1955. Sandra Laing (Sophie Okonedo) has just been born two a pair of white Afrikaner parents, her brown skin and curly hair the surprising result of genetic throwback. As the government's rigid apartheid system struggles with whether to classify Sanrda as white or black, the young girl and her parents gradually realize that the complications they face due to her appearance run deep and wide. Sandra lives in a society where the color of your skin determines the outcome of your life, and though she is eventually granted permission to an all-white school, she suffers endless torment from her intolerant classmates. Her father Abraham (Sam Neill) is having a particularly difficult time accepting his daughter. Despite the fact that tests indicate he is her biological father, the neighbors constantly whisper behind their backs. And while Sandra's mother (Alice Kreig) does her best to provide her daughter with understanding and emotional support, those consolations come at a high price for both mother and daughter. Her parents believe it their daughter's birthright that she live as a white woman, though only after she grows up and falls in love with a black man will the conflicted Sandra finally find the strength to embrace her true identity as an African woman.

Skin is one of the most moving stories to emerge from apartheid South Africa: Sandra Laing is a black child born in the 1950s to white Afrikaners, unaware of their black ancestry. Her parents are rural shopkeepers serving the local black community, who lovingly bring her up as their 'white' little girl. But at the age of ten, Sandra is driven out of white society. The film follows Sandra's thirty-year journey from rejection to acceptance, betrayal to reconciliation, as she struggles to define her place in a changing world - and triumphs against all odds.

Drama set in South Africa. Sandra, a black child born to white parents in the 1950's, faces prejudice in a country divided by apartheid. Her mistreatment leads her father Abraham to fight for her rights in the Supreme Court.

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