Sarafina! was released in 1992. It's audience rating is PG-13 and it runs for 117 min. A Drama, Musical movie, it was written by Mbongeni Ngema, William Nicholson, directed by Darrell Roodt; starring Whoopi Goldberg, Leleti Khumalo, Miriam Makeba. The plot centers on students involved in the Soweto Riots, in opposition to the implementation of Afrikaans as the language of instruction in schools. The stage version presents a school uprising similar to the Soweto uprising on June 16, 1976. A narrator introduces several characters among them the school girl activist Sarafina. Things get out of control when a policeman shoots several pupils in a classroom. Nevertheless, the musical ends with a cheerful farewell show of pupils leaving school, which takes most of act two. In the movie version Sarafina feels shame at her mother's (played by Miriam Makeba in the film) acceptance of her role as domestic servant in a white household in apartheid South Africa, and inspires her peers to rise up in protest, especially after her inspirational teacher, Mary Masombuka (played by Whoopi Goldberg in the film version) is imprisoned.. Sarafina! was first released in South Africa, United Kingdom, France, United States and has grossed $7,306,242 at the BoxOffice Worldwide. It is available in the English, Zulu language(s). If you liked Sarafina!, you will enjoy similar Music movies like The Lion King, The Greatest Showman, The Lion King, The Wizard of Oz, The Lion King II: Simba's Pride, .
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