U-Carmen eKhayelitsha

U-Carmen eKhayelitsha (2005)


  • Genre: Music, Drama, Romance
  • Release Date: 2005-12-22
  • User Rating: 6/10 from 10 ratings
  • Runtime: 2h 2min
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  • Production Company: Spier Films
  • Production Country: South Africa
  • Director: Mark Dornford-May
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6.5

Summary

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...

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  • Pauline Malefane

    as Carmen
  • Andile Tshoni

    as Jongikhaya
  • Lungelwa Blou

    as Nomakhaya
  • Zweilungile Sidloyi

    as Lulamile Nkomo
  • Andries Mbali

    as Bra Nkomo
  • Zamile Gantana

    as Captain Gantana
  • Andiswa Kedama

    as Amanda
  • Ruby Mthethwa

    as Pinki
  • Noluthando Boqwana

    as Manelisa
  • Ross Garland

    as Policeman
Directing Mark Dornford-May Director
Art Craig Smith Production Design
Writing Prosper Mérimée Novel
Production Ross Garland Producer
Production Mark Dornford-May Producer
Production Ross Garland Executive Producer
Writing Mark Dornford-May Writer
Writing Andiswa Kedama Writer
Writing Pauline Malefane Writer
Writing Ludovic Halévy Opera
Writing Henri Meilhac Opera
Sound Simon Rice Sound Mixer
Camera Giulio Biccari Director of Photography
Editing Ronelle Loots Editor

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