UID:
kobvindex_ZLB13811018
Format:
3 Videokassetten (VHS, je 50 Min.)
,
NTSC
Series Statement:
Library of African Cinema : [Video]
Content:
A young ANC activist and poet from Soweto is the sole witness to a brutal train massacre by an Inkathia militant. "Sometimes the reaction to a film can be almost as interesting as the film itself. When the first episode of In a Time of Violence aired in July, 1994, thousands of Zulu hostel dwellers, supporters of the Inkatha Freedom Party, stormed South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) headquarters. They threatened the cast with violence; the rival ANC reported 11 deaths related to the telecast. CCV, the arm of SABC which broadcasts specifically to the black population, banned the remaining two episodes. But, after a nation-wide protest against this capitulation to political pressure, it broadcast the entire series a week later to a record audience. In a Time of Violence is a fast paced political thriller set during the final tense months of apartheid. One of the most ambitious television dramas ever produced in South Africa, it was written by Mapantsula director Olivers Schmitz, stars some of the country's finest actors and features a vibrant score by top Township bands. The series dramatizes the basic ANC policy of ethnic reconciliation within a multi-racial democratic society." (California Newsreel)
Note:
Afrikaans, engl., und zulu mit engl., Untertiteln
Language:
Afrikaans
Keywords:
African National Congress
;
Inkatha (Körperschaft)
;
Multikulturelle Gesellschaft
;
Videokassette
;
Versöhnung
;
Film
;
Südafrika
;
Multikulturelle Gesellschaft
;
Gewalt
;
Geschichte 1994
;
Film
;
Videokassette
;
Videokassette
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