A Dry White Season

A Dry White Season is a 1989 film based on the novel by André P. Brink.

A white middle class South African suburbanite with no interest in politics agrees to help his black gardener find his jailed son. His investigation opens his eyes to the horrors committed by the secret police and turns him into a target.

Screenplay by Colin Welland and Euzhan Palcy. Directed by Euzhan Palcy. The cast: Donald Sutherland, Janet Suzman, Zakes Mokae, Jürgen Prochnow, Susan Sarandon, Marlon Brando, Winston Ntshona, Thoko Ntshinga, Leonard Maguire, Gerard Thoolen, Susannah Harker, Andrew Whaley, Rowen Elmes, Stella Dickin, David de Keyser, John Kani, Sophie Mgcina, Bekhithemba Mpofu, Tinashe Makoni, Precious Phiri, Richard Wilson, Derek Hanekom, Michael Gambon, Ronald Pickup, Paul Brooke, Ernest Ndlovu, Stephen Hanly, Andrew Proctor, Kevin Johnson, Grant Davidson, Ndu Gumede, Sello Maake Ka-Ncube, Charles Pillai, Rosemary Martin, Willie Zweni, Mercia Davids, Mannie De Villiers, Anna Manimanzi.

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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097243/?ref_=fn_all_ttl_1

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