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Marigolds in August (1979)

Director: Ross Devenish

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An examination of the 'invisibility' of blacks in South Africa caused by conditioned white indifference; an invisibility which means poverty and unemployment. The film is set in and around Schoenmakerskop, an opulently sleepy, immaculately manicured whites-only seaside hamlet just outside Port Elizabeth, scriptwriter Athol Fugard's home town. Its central characters all have their real-life counterparts: Daan (Ntshona), the crafty, suspicious but fundamentally good-natured jobbing gardener, jealously protecting his economic lifeline; Melton (Kani), desperately and stubbornly courageous as he searches for work; and Paulus Olifant (Fugard), a nomadic snake-catcher, scavenger and bush-philosopher. All, in one way or another, are outlawed by white society, and gradually realise that this makes them brothers. A powerful, pessimistic, but bracing film.

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Cast & crew

Director: Ross Devenish

Producer: Jonathan Joel Cohen, Mark Forstater

Cast: Winston Ntshona, John Kani, Athol Fugard, Joyce Hesha, Abel Ntshinga, Nomonde Mhlobiso full cast

Duration: 87 mins


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