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Bookmark this pageJobman (1990)
Director: Darrell James Roodt
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From Time Out Film Guide
Smith, the deaf and dumb son of a rural black preacher, refuses to accept the menial labour on offer in the small farming community where he's grown up. He tries to earn a living in the city, but this ends in assault, and his return home sparks off a cycle of vengeful violence. What Roodt's film lacks in subtlety, it makes up for in dirty authenticity. A hard-hitting independent venture (the director went on to make Sarafina!), completed and released against the odds in apartheid South Africa.Author: TJ
Cast & crew
Director: Darrell James Roodt
Producer: Christopher Coy
Cast: Kevin Smith, Tertius Meintjies, Lynn Gaines, Marcel Van Heerden, Goliath Davids, Josephine Liedeman full cast
Duration: 97 mins
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