MOVIE SYNOPSIS
Skin
"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.
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Based on the improbable-but-true saga of Sandra Laing, the dark-complected daughter of light-complected Afrikaner parents in South Africa during the apartheid era, Skin is a surreal melodrama of arbitrary racial labeling that estranged a woman from herself, her family of origin, and the father of her children.
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MPAA rating:
PG-13
for thematic material some violence and sexuality
Cast:
Zoea Alberts; Jeremy Crutchley; Ben Botha; Graeme Bloch; Ruaan Bok; Tongai Arnold Chirisa; Hannes Brummer; Nomathamsanga Baleka; Onida Cowan; Charlotte Butler
Directed by:
Anthony Fabian
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Drama Running time:
01:47
Release date:
2009
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