The Schoolmaster

1990

1h 36m

2.0(1 votes)

Drama

Overview

In 1948 a new schoolmaster with a Polish background arrives in a small South-African town and is confronted with the Apartheid regime.

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Jürgen Prochnow

Rozinsky

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