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U-Carmen eKhayelitsha

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U-CARMEN is a feature film based on Georges Bizet's 19th-century opera that was filmed on location in a modern South African township setting. The energy, compassion, and heat of township life in all its elements create a constantly visually interesting and dynamic background for the unfolding of the story, which owes part of its huge popularity to the thrilling combination of a violent gangster tale with a passionate, almost supernatural love story. As it unfolds, it explores issues of fame and wealth, the position of a strong and independently minded woman in a very masculine society and, perhaps most importantly, the incomprehensible attraction between abuser and victim. Bizet's opera, based on Prosper Merimée's novel, premiered in Paris on March 3, 1875. Set in a poor area of Seville, the story of the magnetic woman who seduces, loves, and ultimately destroys her lover and herself...

Directed byMark Dornford-May

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Status
Released
Runtime
2h 2m
Language
XH
Released
December 22, 2005
Studios
Spier Films

Featuring

Cast & crew

10 credited
Starring

Pauline Malefane

Carmen

Andile Tshoni

Jongikhaya

Lungelwa Blou

Nomakhaya

Zweilungile Sidloyi

Lulamile Nkomo

Andries Mbali

Bra Nkomo

Zamile Gantana

Captain Gantana

Andiswa Kedama

Amanda

Ruby Mthethwa

Pinki

Noluthando Boqwana

Manelisa

Ross Garland

Policeman

Creative team
Directed by
Mark Dornford-May
Written by
Andiswa Kedama
Pauline Malefane
Produced by
Mark Dornford-May
Ross Garland

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