Assassinato Sob Custódia

Título original: A Dry White Season

1989
R
1 h 46 min

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Durante o levante de Soweto em 1976, a vida e os valores de um professor branco são ameaçados quando ele faz perguntas sobre a morte de um jovem negro que morreu sob custódia policial.Durante o levante de Soweto em 1976, a vida e os valores de um professor branco são ameaçados quando ele faz perguntas sobre a morte de um jovem negro que morreu sob custódia policial.Durante o levante de Soweto em 1976, a vida e os valores de um professor branco são ameaçados quando ele faz perguntas sobre a morte de um jovem negro que morreu sob custódia policial.

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Curiosidades
With this movie, writer and director Euzhan Palcy became the first Black woman to direct a major Hollywood movie.

Erros de gravação
When the camera pulls away from the court house (Harare City Hall) a bus drives past displaying an advertisement for Balkan Bulgarian Airlines, which flew to Zimbabwe, but not to South Africa under apartheid during the 1970s.

Citações
Ian McKenzie: Justice and law, Mr. Du Toit, are often just... well they're, I suppose they can be described as distant cousins. And here in South Africa, well, they're simply not on speaking terms at all.

Conexões
Featured in Siskel & Ebert & the Movies: Black Rain/Heavy Petting/In Country/A Dry White Season/Heart of Dixie (1989)

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Written by Joseph Shabalala
Performed by Ladysmith Black Mambazo
Courtesy of Warner Bros. Records
Produced by Danny Lawson for Night After Night, Ltd.

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10/10

watch it and never forget.

One day in South Africa in the 1960's, a young black man was walking along the street with his aged mother. Coming along the road was a young white man. The young black man knew that apartheid law and custom meant that the white would probably barge the two blacks off the pavement and into the gutter. The law would protect him and the young black man might be imprisoned for defending himself. The young black man tensed his muscles and prepared to defend his mother, but was amazed when the Englishman stepped off the pavement and doffed his broad brimmed hat in greeting. Later on the two would become friends and allies. The white man was to become bishop Trevor Huddleston, the black man, bishop Desmond Tutu.

That story is NOT the story of A Dry White season, but it is of a kindred spirit. Like the gesture of Trevor Huddleston, the story of Ben de Tor is a gesture against apartheid. A glimmer of hope, but merely that, a flicker.

It must be five years since I saw a Dry White Season but I still remember how I felt leaving the cinema. It is a film which will stay with you.

The plot follows a white South African on an adventure through bewilderment, revelation, denial, disgust, and a futile attempt to fight a grossly unfair system.

I can't go into detail after this length of time but the cameos in this film would be worth the video rental. Marlon Brando (yes) steals the show as the lawyer who knows exactly how hopeless the fight against apartheid is but agrees to fight anyway.

The political situation today in South Africa is a world away from that of A Dry White Season. Watch it and never forget.