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Zulu Love Letter

01/02/2004

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1hr 40min

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Drama

STORY

Thandeka, a young Black journalist, lives in fear of Johannesburg's past. She's so troubled that she can't work, and her relationship with her 13-year-old deaf daughter Mangi goes from bad to worse. One day Me'Tau, an elderly woman, arrives at the newspaper's office. Ten years earlier, Thandeka witnessed the murder of the woman's daughter Dinéo by the secret police. Me'Tau wants Thandeka to find the murderers and Dinéo's body so that the girl can be buried in accordance with tradition. What Me'Tau couldn't know is that Thandeka has already paid for her knowledge, for having dared stand up to the apartheid system run by the whites. Meanwhile, Mangi secretly prepares a Zulu love letter: four embroidered images representing solitude, loss, hope, and love, as a final gesture towards her mother so that she won't give up the fight.

CAST & CREW

    Cast

  • Pamela Nomvete
  • Mpumi Malatsi
  • Sophie Mgcina
  • Kurt Egelhof

    Director

  • Ramadan Suleman

INFORMATION

    Production Companies

  • JBA Production
  • Hollybell
  • FMB2
  • Natives at Large
  • ZDF/Arte

    Production Countries

  • South Africa

LANGUAGES

  • English
  • Zulu

Cast

Pamela Nomvete

Mpumi Malatsi

Sophie Mgcina

Kurt Egelhof