a world apart

Director: chris menges

Actor: barbara hershey,david suchet,jodhi may,jeroen krabbé

Data Published: Fri Jun 17 1988

Genres: Drama

Key Words: 13 year old,johannesburg south africa,friend,friendship,arrest

IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096464/

WIKI: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_World_Apart_(film)

Description: A World Apart is a movie starring Barbara Hershey, David Suchet, and Jodhi May. 1963. Thirteen year old Molly Roth, the eldest of three offspring of Gus and Diana Roth, lives a carefree life as part of the affluent white minority in...

Plot: Set in Johannesburg in 1963, the film examines the abrupt ending of 13-year-old Molly's blithe childhood when her father, a member of the South African Communist Party, is sent into exile. Ostracised by her peers, Molly draws closer to her mother as she attempts to further the campaign against apartheid. Their relationship is challenged by hardship, political intimidation, and the older woman's eventual arrest. The film title references both the gap between the mother and her teenage girl, who fails to grasp why their family is so fixated with events beyond their comfortable suburb, and another separating this world from that of South Africa's poverty-stricken black townships. Essentially, the film is a tribute to Ruth First by her daughter and concludes in a moment of epiphany as Molly comes to terms with her mother's activism and understands that she too must play a part in the struggle to protest racial injustice.