Sarafina!
She was their teacher. They were her hope.
A Soweto schoolgirl named Sarafina is galvanized to protest apartheid after her teacher is arrested for her activism, leading her to join the student resistance movement.
Director
Darrell James Roodt
Status
Released
Language
EN
Box office
$9M
Cast
Leleti Khumalo
Sarafina
Whoopi Goldberg
Mary Masembuko
John Kani
School Principal
Miriam Makeba
Angelina
Mary Twala
Sarafina's Grandmother
Dumisani Dlamini
Crocodile
Mbongeni Ngema
Sabela
Tertius Meintjes
Lieutenant Bloem
Robert Whitehead
Interrogator
Greg Latter
Policeman
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