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Una árida estación blanca

Título original: A Dry White Season
  • 1989
  • R
  • 1h 46min
CALIFICACIÓN DE IMDb
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Una árida estación blanca (1989)
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Agrega una trama en tu idiomaA 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 b... Leer todoA 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.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.

  • Dirección
    • Euzhan Palcy
  • Guionistas
    • André P. Brink
    • Colin Welland
    • Euzhan Palcy
  • Elenco
    • Donald Sutherland
    • Janet Suzman
    • Zakes Mokae
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  • CALIFICACIÓN DE IMDb
    7.0/10
    6.6 k
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    • Dirección
      • Euzhan Palcy
    • Guionistas
      • André P. Brink
      • Colin Welland
      • Euzhan Palcy
    • Elenco
      • Donald Sutherland
      • Janet Suzman
      • Zakes Mokae
    • 47Opiniones de los usuarios
    • 28Opiniones de los críticos
    • 68Metascore
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    • Nominado a 1 premio Óscar
      • 2 premios ganados y 9 nominaciones en total

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    Donald Sutherland
    Donald Sutherland
    • Ben
    Janet Suzman
    Janet Suzman
    • Susan
    Zakes Mokae
    Zakes Mokae
    • Stanley
    Jürgen Prochnow
    Jürgen Prochnow
    • Captain Stolz
    • (as Jurgen Prochnow)
    Susan Sarandon
    Susan Sarandon
    • Melanie
    Marlon Brando
    Marlon Brando
    • McKenzie
    Winston Ntshona
    Winston Ntshona
    • Gordon
    Thoko Ntshinga
    • Emily
    Leonard Maguire
    • Bruwer
    Gerard Thoolen
    Gerard Thoolen
    • Col. Viljoen
    Susannah Harker
    Susannah Harker
    • Suzette
    Andrew Whaley
    • Chris
    Rowen Elmes
    • Johan
    Stella Dickin
    • Susan's Mother
    David de Keyser
    David de Keyser
    • Susan's Father
    • (as David De Keyser)
    John Kani
    John Kani
    • Julius
    Sophie Mgcina
    • Margaret
    Bekhithemba Mpofu
    • Jonathan
    • Dirección
      • Euzhan Palcy
    • Guionistas
      • André P. Brink
      • Colin Welland
      • Euzhan Palcy
    • Todo el elenco y el equipo
    • Producción, taquilla y más en IMDbPro

    Opiniones de usuarios47

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    8jotix100

    Gripping tale about social injustice

    Apartheid gripped South Africa for many years. One heard the news with total disbelief, as things got worse in that country. Euzhan Palcy has brought Andre Brink's novel to the screen making a statement along the way about what was wrong in South Africa under the brutal repression of those that dared to make a stand.

    The carnage one sees in the film is hard to take. Especially, since one occurrence is directed to innocent children who are trying to make a stand about education. At the time, the white establishment labeled communist all those that dared oppose the ruling class. It's ironic that after things got to be democratic, those same rebels didn't turn the country into a communist state.

    The story centers on a white teacher that suddenly awakens to what is happening around him. His involvement comes through his gardener, Gordon, who is a decent man. When the gardener's son is arrested, Gordon turns to Ben for help. That will mark the beginning of Ben's passive attitude toward apartheid. By trying to help, Ben will be a marked man, a traitor to his people, according to even his own family.

    Donald Sutherland makes an excellent Ben, the former football star and teacher. We watch him as he gets deeply involved in his quest for justice in a land where it was unknown. Zakes Mokae, an immensely talented actor of stage and screen, plays Stanley the man that serves as a link between the struggling faction and Ben. Jurgen Prochnow plays the sadistic Capt. Stolz conveying all the cruelty and arrogance of the man. Janet Suzman is Ben's wife, a woman who doesn't want to see any changes in her cushy life.

    The surprise of the film is the appearance of Marlon Brando in a small, but pivotal role of Ian McKenzie, a barrister that brings the case to a court of justice, but it's defeated by the system. Mr. Brando made a tremendous contribution to the film.

    Ms. Palcy's film is a reminder of the injustice perpetuated in South Africa under the apartheid rule.
    6SnoopyStyle

    could have been more compelling as a movie

    It's 1976. Ben du Toit (Donald Sutherland) is a liberal South African schoolmaster and a former rugby star. He is shocked by the police beating of his gardener Gordon's son but does nothing. When the kids gather to protest the teaching of Afrikaans, the police reply with violence. Gordon's son goes missing. Ben, in his sheltered life, tries to help and the police tells him that he's dead. Ben again advises Gordon to leave it alone. Gordon continues to investigate and gets arrested. Captain Stolz (Jürgen Prochnow) is the man in charge of torturing Gordon. Gordon's wife brings lawyer Stanley Makhaya (Zakes Mokae). The police claims that Gordon committed suicide. Stanley brings Ben to the Soweto township and shown the truth of his torture. Melanie Bruwer (Susan Sarandon) is a newspaper reporter. Civil rights lawyer Ian McKenzie (Marlon Brando) relents to Ben and takes on the case.

    Ben is a clueless idiot at the start of the movie and that is the part that I dislike most about the movie. It would be so much better for Ben to be in denial. Sutherland plays it so wide eye and ill-informed. It would be more dramatic and better as character development that he doesn't come off as ignorant at the beginning. The court case in the middle drags on a little too much. It's often hard to switch into court like that. There isn't the shock of revelation since the movie already showed the torture earlier. This is also very heavy handed. This feels like a sermon more than a drama. Having Marlon Brando there pontificating doesn't help. The other problem is that after the court case, the movie goes back to the white folks. Even though it's not the movie intention, the black folks get sidelined. Nevertheless, it's an interesting attempt at bringing South Africa to the big screen.
    welshyvero

    we will never be the same now

    We are pupils in the10th grade in Dumont d'Urville in Normandy (France). We are all sixteen and we have been learning English for six years. We watched the film A dry white season in class and we had to write a review on it.

    It is a film shot by Euzhan Palcy in 1997 which is based from a novel by André Brink.

    The main characters are Ben du Toit played by Donald Sutherland, Captain Stolz played by Jürgen Prochnow, Stanley played by Zakes Mokae and Gordon played by Winston Ntshona.

    The plot deals with apartheid in South Africa in 1976. A naïve history teacher Ben du Toit decides to avenge his gardener's death, Gordon, a black man. He is tortured to death by the white police. Ben becomes aware of the issue of segregation in his country and he sides with the blacks.

    We all liked this film because it gave another vision of apartheid, more shocking and violent than the one we had imagined. This film is educative because too many people ignore what white men did to the blacks at that time and even recently. Nowadays, colored people endure discrimination in many countries even if apartheid, slavery have been abolished, so it is a very interesting film, it shows a real and current problem : racism which still exists in our society. We don't know if it can make people's mentalities evolve but it will certainly make people question themselves.

    We would recommend this film to our friends because we think people are not informed enough about apartheid.
    hkmanwah

    a splendid period piece of a dark part of South Africa's history.

    I believe this to be one of Marlon Brando's most underrated performances. The film itself is a splendid period piece of Apartheid South Africa. I rarely see this movie mentioned in biographical comment with regard to Brando's career, and yet, it is a stunning performance. I assume the lack of comment is the fact that he only played a supporting role, and that the subject of apartheid probably denied it a higher profile. As somebody who has lived in South Africa, both before and after apartheid, i cannot tell you how accurate the performance of Brando is in this role. There is no doubt in my mind that he must have studied meticulously before playing this part. I do not know why, but there are a large percentage of professional people in South Africa who have an almost perfect "Queen's English" accent...but it is tinged with a slight South African edge which only the most perceptive can detect. Not only does Marlon Brando capture this perception, but he somehow manages to replicate it, which i have always found truly incredible. You would have to live South Africa to know how fantastic his voicing is in this part, but believe me, apart from the power of his acting, this role is a truly stunning illustration of his amazing ability. I hope this movie will obtain the higher profile it deserves in the future.

    Manny Wah Hong Kong
    8bkoganbing

    "Your Son Will Not Believe Their Lies"

    It took the cause and message of A Dry White Season for Marlon Brando to leave his self-imposed exile in Tahiti to come back to the screen, albeit in a small supporting role. Still the cause was one of the most remarkable in the 20th Century, the eventually successful opposition to the white apartheid government of the Union of South Africa.

    A Dry White Season was originally a novel concerned with the aftermath of the famous Soweto Massacre when South African troops fired on a protest of black Bantu children being forced to learn in Afrikaans the language of the oppressor as Desmond Tutu so eloquently put it.

    The son of the gardener at Donald Sutherland's estate is killed in Soweto and his body is not returned. After which the gardener Winston Ntshona is picked up by the special branch of the South African Police for asking too many questions and later he dies in prison the result of a suicide which no one with a functioning brain believes. At that point Sutherland decides to intervene himself.

    Sutherland plays a history teacher in a white only school and as he learns about what's going on and starts asking the questions he dare not ask before even to himself. His radicalization is total, but it costs him dear, his wife Janet Suzman and his daughter Sussanah Harker leave him, but his young son Rowen Elnes sticks with dad.

    It's not that he doesn't gain a few new friends, African National Congress organizer Zakes Mokae, crusading journalist Susan Sarandon, and human rights attorney Marlon Brando. But he also gains a bitter and malevolent enemy in Special Branch Captain Jurgen Prochnow who apparently does damage control for the government. That includes outright murder of suspected opposition to the apartheid government.

    Every actor worth his salt loves a courtroom scene and Marlon Brando might have even come back for that in this film as well as the anti- apartheid cause. He got the film's only Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor, but lost to Denzel Washington for Glory. I suspect given Marlon's history with Oscar folks were reluctant to vote for him.

    The film really belongs to star Donald Sutherland though and I think it a pity he wasn't given any Oscar nomination for this fine film with an eternal message about freedom.

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    • Trivia
      With this movie, writer and director Euzhan Palcy became the first Black woman to direct a major Hollywood movie.
    • Errores
      When the camera pulls away from the court house (Harare City Hall) a bus drives past displaying an advertisement for Balkan Bulgarian Airlines, which flew to Zimbabwe, but not to South Africa under apartheid during the 1970s.
    • Citas

      Ian McKenzie: Justice and law, Mr. Du Toit, are often just... well they're, I suppose they can be described as distant cousins. And here in South Africa, well, they're simply not on speaking terms at all.

    • Conexiones
      Featured in Siskel & Ebert & the Movies: Black Rain/Heavy Petting/In Country/A Dry White Season/Heart of Dixie (1989)
    • Bandas sonoras
      Unomatheba
      Written by Joseph Shabalala

      Performed by Ladysmith Black Mambazo

      Courtesy of Warner Bros. Records

      Produced by Danny Lawson for Night After Night, Ltd.

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    Detalles

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    • Fecha de lanzamiento
      • 20 de septiembre de 1989 (Estados Unidos)
    • País de origen
      • Estados Unidos
    • Idiomas
      • Inglés
      • Afrikáans
      • Zulú
    • También se conoce como
      • A Dry White Season
    • Locaciones de filmación
      • Zimbabwe
    • Productoras
      • Davros Films
      • Star Partners II Ltd.
      • Sundance Productions
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    • Presupuesto
      • USD 9,000,000 (estimado)
    • Total en EE. UU. y Canadá
      • USD 3,766,879
    • Fin de semana de estreno en EE. UU. y Canadá
      • USD 202,507
      • 24 sep 1989
    • Total a nivel mundial
      • USD 3,766,879
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    • Tiempo de ejecución
      1 hora 46 minutos
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      • Color
    • Mezcla de sonido
      • Dolby Stereo
    • Relación de aspecto
      • 1.85 : 1

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