A Dry White Season
(1989)
★ 6.7 IMDb · 117 votes
Year: 1989
Runtime: 107 мин
Country: United States of America
Director: Euzhan Palcy
Cast: Дональд Сазерленд, Janet Suzman, Zakes Mokae, Юрген Прохнов, Сьюзан Сарандон, Марлон Брандо, Winston Ntshona, Thoko Ntshinga, Leonard Maguire, Gerard Thoolen
Plot
During the 1976 Soweto uprising, a white school teacher's life and values are threatened when he asks questions about the death of a young black boy who died in police custody.
Ben du Toit (Donald Sutherland) is a schoolteacher who always has considered himself a man of caring and justice, at least on the individual level. When his gardener, Stanley's (Zakes Mokae's) son, Jonathan (Bekhithemba Mpofu), is brutally beaten up by the Police at a demonstration by black school children, he gradually begins to realize his own society is built on a pillar of injustice and exploitation.