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Anti-apartheid blockbuster takes shape

By

ANDREW

MELDRUM

NZPA-AFP Harare Another anti-apartheid blockbuster is taking shape in the spectacular landscape of Zimbabwe, with stars like Marlon Brando, Donald Sutherland, Janet Suzman and Susan Sarandon on the bill.

A Martinique film director, Euzhan Paley, is putting “A Dry White Season,” the best-selling novel of the South African writer, Andre Brink, on to celluloid.

The film, like the book, tells how a white Afrikaner schoolteacher becomes radicalised against the apartheid system through the death in police detention of a black house-servant’s child. The film is set in the South Africa of 1976, at the height of the Soweto uprising. Although a blanket res-

triction of reporting on the film has prevented journalists from visiting the set or interviewing participants, a few glimpses liave emerged. It is known that Brando has donated his fee to the Frontline Children’s Fund, to aid children in blackruled countries like Mozambique, Angola and Zimbabwe who have suffered from South African aggression.

Donald Sutherland, in the leading role, has raised eyebrows in Harare for his ferocious insistence that there be absolutely no cigarette smoke around him. Ms Placy is considered by many to be the first black woman writer and director to achieve international recognition, with her semi-autobiographical film, “La Rue Cases Negres,” winning a Silver, Lion at the Venice Film Festival

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Press, 5 August 1988, Page 26

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Anti-apartheid blockbuster takes shape Press, 5 August 1988, Page 26

Anti-apartheid blockbuster takes shape Press, 5 August 1988, Page 26

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