Shot on location in Johannesburg, Cape Town, and
Mozambique, this political thriller is based on the
real-life story of Patrick Chamusso. The film takes
place in South Africa, spanning the 1980s to the
present day. Patrick (played by Derek Luke) is an
oil refinery employee who is brutalized by
government-sanctioned terror squads.
Young hoodlum’s rise from a small-time criminal to a powerful crime entrepreneur during the turbulent years before and after the fall of apartheid.
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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.
