A World Apart (1988)

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Directed by

Chris Menges

Starring (View all)

Jodhi May
Molly Roth

Jeroen Krabbé
Gus Roth

Barbara Hershey
Diana Roth

Kate Fitzpatrick
June Abelson

Tim Roth
Harold

Linda Mvusi
Elsie

Paul Freeman
Kruger

Rosalie Crutchley
Mrs. Harris

Written by

Shawn Slovo
writer

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Description: Based on a true story, this "haunting, deeply moving film" (Los Angeles Times) brims with "emotion and radiant intelligence" (The New Yorker) and features Barbara Hershey in a "strikingly forceful performance" (New York) by Barbara Hershey, this potent account of personal and political turmoil brims with "emotion and radiant intelligence" (The New Yorker)! South Africa, 1963. Communist Gus Roth (Jeroen Krabbe) is forced to flee Johannesburg to escape arrest, leaving his activist wife Diana (Hershey) to continue their crusade against apartheid. But when Diana is wrenched from her three daug ... (more)

Release date: 17 June 1988
UPC: 027616927552