Sarafina! (film)

Sarafina is a 1992 South African film starring Leleti Khumalo, Whoopi Goldberg, Miriam Makeba, John Kani and Tertius Meintjies.

The film was shot on location in Soweto and Johannesburg, South Africa. Darrell Roodt directed, with the script by Mbongeni Ngema and William Nicholson. Leleti Khumalo reprised her role as Sarafina, with Whoopi Goldberg as Mary Masombuka and Miriam Makeba as Angelina. Companies involved included the British Broadcasting Corporation. In the United States, the MPAA, rated the film PG13 for scenes of apartheiddriven violence. The extended version, released in 1993, was rated R for strong scenes of violence. For Whoopi Goldberg, this was a project she was determined to be a part of, and convinced the executives at Disney that if they agreed to make this film, she would agree to reprise her role as Dolores Van Cartier in Sister ActBack In The Habit, which Disney was very keen to make since the original had brought in many millions worldwide.citation needed The film was released onSeptember 1992. Sarafina was rereleased in South Africa onJune 2006 to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the Soweto uprising in Soweto. The remastered directors cut is not very different from the original, except for the inclusion of one scene that was cut from the original, between Leleti Khumalo Sarafina and Miriam Makeba Sarafinas mother, which includes a musical number Thank You Mama. ........

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