Tsotsi (Afrikaans, Zulu, DVD)

YES, THIS ONE REALLY IS THAT GOOD!

For the first time since the young Jamie Uys’s days: in director Gavin Hood, South Africa has finally found somebody else who truly understands the cinematic medium. Working from his own screenplay based on a novel by Athol Fugard, Hood has a created a convincingly real yet tender tale that breathes atmosphere from every frame.

With his mother dying from Aids, young David runs away from an abusive father to live with other homeless children in a series of large concrete construction pipes. At the start of the film, David, now known to all as “Tsotsi,” is involved in a murder committed by one of his street associates during a mugging. Tsotsi shoots a young woman while stealing her car…only to discover a three month-old baby in the back seat!

Presley Chwenevagae is absolutely marvelous as the main character, though the rest of the acting performances are uniformly as good. Jerry Mofeking, as Morris the beggar, deserves a special mention though…as does veteran Ian Roberts as police captain Smit: one of the very few white men in the movie.

For my money, the editing and music alone could’ve taken the Oscar!

Hard-hitting Afrikaans drama. Presley Chweneyagae stars as the title character, a young delinquent who supports himself through a life of crime on the tough streets of Johannesburg. Coming from a brutal and deprived background, Tsotsi thinks nothing of committing acts of violence, but when he murders a woman to steal her car, he is forced to confront the consequences of his actions when he discovers the dead woman's baby on the back seat. Unsure what to do, he takes the child home and tries to care for it. As the baby gradually reawakens his buried sense of humanity, Tsotsi is forced to make a momentous decision when he comes across the child's bereaved family during a robbery.

General

Studio:	Momentum Pictures
Release date:	July 2006
Movie released:	2005
Actors:	Presley Chweneyagae • Mothusi Magano • Israel Makoe • Percy Matsemela • Jerry Mofokeng • Benny Moshe • Nambitha Mpumlwana • Jeremiah Ndlovu • Zenzo Ngqobe • Kenneth Nkosi
Contributors:	Gavin Hood • Peter Fudakowski • Paul Hepker • Mark Kilian
Directors:	Gavin Hood
Dimensions:	192 x 137 x 15mm (L x W x T)
Format:
Running time:	1 hour, 30 minutes
Region encoding:	Region 2. This DVD will play in all South African DVD players.
Languages:	Afrikaans • Zulu
Subtitles:	English
Age restriction:	15
Categories:	DVD > Crime DVD > Drama DVD > Feature Film
LSN:	XHF-PAA-8PE-7
Barcode:	5060116720495

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• Other Documentary: 'The Shopkeeper' short, alternative ending

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