SKIN
Südafrika (2011)
Laufzeit: 106 Min.
Laufzeit: 106 Min.
Empfehlung: Ab 16 Jahre
FSK-Freigabe: -
FSK-Freigabe: -
Lizenzlaufzeit bis: unbegrenzt gültig
Medienart: DVD
Autor: Anthony Fabian
Sprache: Englisch, Französische Untertitel
Schlagworte: Rassismus, Südafrika, Apartheid, Alkoholismus, Afrika
Themengebiete: Familie
| DVD | 4820 |
The year is 1965, and 10 year-old Sandra and her parents, Abraham and Sannie, are white Afrikaners. Her parents are shopkeepers in a remote area of the Eastern Transvaal and, despite Sandra's mixed-race appearance, have lovingly brought her up as their white little girl. Sandra is sent to a boarding school in the neighbouring town of Piet Retief, where her (white) brother Leon is also studying, but parents of other students and teachers complain that she does not belong.
She is examined by State officials, reclassified as coloured, and expelled from the school. Sandra's parents are shocked, but Abraham fights through the courts to have the classification reversed. The story becomes an international scandal and media pressure forces the law to change, so that Sandra is classified as officially white again.
By the time she is 17, Sandra realises she is never going to be accepted by the white community. She falls in love with Petrus, a young black man and the local vegetable seller, and begins an illicit love affair. Abraham threatens to shoot Petrus and disown Sandra. Sannie is torn between her husband's rage and her daughter's predicament. Sandra elopes with Petrus to Swaziland. Abraham alerts the police, and has them arrested and put in prison for the illegal border crossing. Sandra is released by the local magistrate to return home with her parents, but she decides to return to Petrus, as she is pregnant with his child. Her father disowns her...
L’histoire de Sandra Laing est une histoire vraie. Dans les années 50 nait dans une famille blanche sud africaine une petite fille noire. Les parents qui découvrent ainsi une lointaine ascendance noire l‘élèvent comme une petite fille blanche en dépit des murmures et des suspicions. A l‘âge de 10 ans, Sandra se fait expulser de son école pour sa couleur de peau. Son père se bat alors pour la faire reconnaitre comme blanche. Son histoire est racontée dans le film “Skin”.
Originaltitel: SKIN
