John Kani
Nacimiento : 1943-11-30, New Brighton, Port Elizabeth, South Africa
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Bonsile John Kani (born 1943) is a South African actor, director and playwright. He was born in New Brighton, South Africa. Kani joined The Serpent Players (a group of actors whose first performance was in the former snake pit of the zoo, hence the name) in Port Elizabeth in 1965 and helped to create many plays that went unpublished but were performed to a resounding reception. These were followed by the more famous Sizwe Banzi is Dead and The Island, co-written with Athol Fugard and Winston Ntshona, in the early 1970s. He also received an Olivier nomination for his role in My Children My Africa! Kani's work has been widely performed around the world, including New York, where he and Winston Ntshona won a Tony Award in 1975 for Sizwe Banzi Is Dead and The Island. These two plays were presented in repertory at the Edison Theatre for a total of 52 performances. Nothing but the Truth (2002) was his debut as sole playwright and was first performed in the Market Theatre in Johannesburg. This play takes place in post-apartheid South Africa and does not concern the conflicts between whites and blacks, but the rift between blacks who stayed in South Africa to fight apartheid, and those who left only to return when the hated regime folded. It won the 2003 Fleur du Cap Awards for best actor and best new South African play. In the same year he was also awarded a special Obie award for his extraordinary contribution to theatre in the USA. Kani is executive trustee of the Market Theatre Foundation, founder and director of the Market Theatre Laboratory and chairman of the National Arts Council of SA.
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Colonel Ulenga
Ahora que son detectives privados y tienen su propia agencia, Nick y Audrey Spitz terminan en medio de una investigación internacional tras el secuestro de un amigo.
Brick (voice)
Después de que su mejor amigo muere en un ataque de tiburón, Quinn, una adorable pero tenaz foca, reúne un EQUIPO SEAL para luchar contra una banda de tiburones que se apodera del vecindario. Pero esta alegre banda de focas internacionales no está en absoluto entrenada para tal misión.
Rafiki (voice)
Simba es el hijo del rey de los leones, Mufasa, y heredero de todo el reino. Pero cuando su padre es brutalmente asesinado por su tío Scar, decidirá huir, dejando vía libre para que su tío tome el puesto de su padre como líder de la manada. En su camino, Simba se encuentra con el suricato Timón y el jabalí Pumba, que le enseñarán a vivir la vida sin preocupaciones. Pero el joven león se verá obligado a decidir entre su vida libre de problemas o su destino como rey .
When everything about you falls one man decides that theatre is the key, and the way to begin to unify a people. A film about the life and times of The Space theatre (a.k.a. 'The Space', 'Die Ruimte' in Afrikaans, and 'Indawo' in Xhosa).
Colonel Ulenga
Unos recién casados estadounidenses que visitan Europa en su luna de miel, quedan atrapados en el misterio de un asesinato después de presenciar un crimen.
T'Chaka
Después de los acontecimientos de "Capitán América: Civil War", T'Challa vuelve a casa, la nación aislada y muy avanzada tecnológicamente de Wakanda, para ser proclamado Rey. Pero la reaparición de un viejo enemigo pone a prueba el temple de T'Challa como Rey y Black Panther ya que se ve arrastrado a un conflicto que pone en peligro todo el destino de Wakanda y del mundo.
King T'Chaka
Continúa la historia de “Avengers: Age of Ultron”, con Steve Rogers liderando un nuevo equipo de Vengadores en su esfuerzo por proteger a la humanidad. Tras otro incidente internacional relacionado con los Vengadores que ocasiona daños colaterales, la presión política fuerza a crear un sistema de registro y un cuerpo gubernamental para determinar cuándo se requiere los servicios del equipo. El nuevo status quo divide a los Vengadores mientras intentan salvar al mundo de un nuevo y perverso villano.
Narrator
As South Africa celebrates its 20th anniversary of the advent of democracy in 1994, it is difficult to believe the ‘Mandela miracle’ nearly didn’t happen. In an orgy of countrywide violence, some were intent on derailing the first free elections. Now, for the first time, those responsible for countless deaths and widespread mayhem explain how they nearly brought South Africa to its knees. 1994: The Bloody Miracle is a chilling look at what these hard men did to thwart democracy, and at how they have now made an uneasy peace with the ‘Rainbow Nation’ in their own different ways.
The early life of Roman ruler Julius Caesar as told in three working prisons in South Africa, the UK and Canada. A small group of professional actors is joined by a cast of real-life inmates to tell the story of one of history's foremost personalities.
Himself
Director Tony Palmer tells the incredible life story of Athol Fugard, the prolific playwright, novelist, and director who exposed the horrors of South Africa's apartheid system for the entire world to see. Interviews with Desmond Tutu, Nelson Mandela, Yvonne Bryceland and others help to illuminate Fugard's remarkable legacy.
Julius Twala Snr.
It's a jungle out there. That's how we meet our lead character Jack. It's been five years since he's seen his partner and best friend Twala. Jack did five years for a robbery gone bad. Twala never got caught and Jack never talked. But Twala is as treacherous as Jack is honourable. He's married Jack's former fiancée. Jack wants to go legit but after being rejected for a loan he needs a new source of capital. Twala presents him with an opportunity a job with a R2 million take. The complication is that the mark is Twala's father. Jacks partner for the job is the tough and sexy Olive. Little does he know she will prove to be more devious then his old friend.
General Cominius
Adaptación del "Coriolanus" de Shakespeare ambientada en la Roma contemporánea. Coriolano es un general que cae en desgracia y es desterrado a una región remota. Allí reclutará los hombres necesarios para formar un ejército y vengarse de sus enemigos.
Old Gisani
Según la leyenda de los Shangaan, los leones blancos son los mensajeros de los dioses, pero hace años que no se ve uno en su remoto valle africano. Cuando un león blanco nace milagrosamente en ese valle, un joven Shangaan llamado Gisani, se encuentra destinado a proteger a esta rara y magnífica criatura a toda costa. Este joven león, que será conocido como Letsatsi, es expulsado de su orgullo y obligado a embarcarse en un peligroso viaje de supervivencia.
Stone
Melody returns to her old home to Fairlands the funeral of their daughter, June to attend. But Melody not recognize their city regains because it is almost entirely disappeared under tons of sand. She also learns that they have a 10-year-old grandson, River, has. Melody River will take into their new life, but this is fighting back. He wants to hatch the eggs of ostriches, which he has always fed with his mother.
Rivers father, Scoop, a lazy musician and the man in the city post office, wants Melody leaves the city. Here are a lot of conflicts, to Melody learns the truth. But haunts as a sand storm the city, suddenly everything changes.
Bogle
Based on a true story, set in the late 19th century: Lord Tichborne, the ninth richest nobleman in England, disappears after a South American shipwreck. Some years later his erudite Afro-English valet, Bogle, is sent to investigate rumors that Tichborne survived and settled in Australia. An alcoholic ruffian answer's Bogle's inquiries claiming to be the lost heir. Bogle suspects fraud, but conspires with the claimant to split the inheritance should the latter succesfully pass himself off to friends, family and the courts. As the claimant returns to England to continue his charade, enough people confirm his identity to make both the claimant and Bogle believe that he just might be the rightful heir after all.
Ben
Kini and Adams are two friends leaving in a Zimbabwe village who dream of repairing an old broken car, and moving to the city and starting life over.
Samuel
Hacia finales de 1890, la llegada del ingeniero John Patterson (Val Kilmer) a tierras africanas acelera la construcción del ferrocaril. Además, los trabajadores africanos le consideran un héroe, desde que Patterson cazara a un león de un solo disparo, algo que sólo es capaz de hacer el legendario cazador Charles Remington (Michael Douglas). Cuando parece que las obras van viento en popa, hacen acto de presencia Fantasma y Oscuridad, dos leones devoradores de hombres. Entonces Paterson y Remington deberán unirse para poder acabar con ellos.
Dr. Curtis
An American couple moves to Johannesburg after Nelson Mandela is elected president.
Self
A documentary overview and ideological critique of the South African film industry and cinema's historical relationship with apartheid.
School Principal
The plot centers on students involved in the Soweto Riots, in opposition to the implementation of Afrikaans as the language of instruction in schools. The stage version presents a school uprising similar to the Soweto uprising on June 16, 1976. A narrator introduces several characters among them the school girl activist Sarafina. Things get out of control when a policeman shoots several pupils in a classroom. Nevertheless, the musical ends with a cheerful farewell show of pupils leaving school, which takes most of act two. In the movie version Sarafina feels shame at her mother's (played by Miriam Makeba in the film) acceptance of her role as domestic servant in a white household in apartheid South Africa, and inspires her peers to rise up in protest, especially after her inspirational teacher, Mary Masombuka (played by Whoopi Goldberg in the film version) is imprisoned.
True story of a man who believes God owns the earth and land cannot be owned by anyone, therefore he's at liberty to build his church on ground occupied by others.
Othello
After 400 years Shakespeare's great tragedy still has strong social and political relevance, and this celebrated production by leading actress and director Janet Suzman was momentous, as it was staged at South Africa's famous Market Theatre during the apartheid era. Tony Award-winning actor John Kani plays the title role.
Julius
Sudáfrica, años setenta. El prestigioso profesor blanco Ben du Toit ha vivido toda su vida al margen de los horrores e injusticias del apartheid sudafricano. Nunca quiso tomar partido. Cuando el hijo de su jardinero negro es arrestado en Soweto durante una manifestación de protesta, Ben piensa que la policía tiene sus razones. Pero, cuando el chico es detenido otra vez por la policía y no regresa a casa. Ben le promete a su jardinero investigar el incidente. (FILMAFFINITY)
Jonas
Un MBA va a África para hacer un trato, pero sale con una princesa.
South African drama set at a roadhouse in Apartheid.
Khatana
An Englishwoman travels to South Africa in 1906.
Willie
When Harold, a young white man, learns that his alcoholic, handicapped father is returning home, his frustration turns into racist viciousness against the two black men who work for the family.
Moses
Una mujer de ciudad se traslada a un país extranjero con su futuro marido, renunciando a todas las comodidades de la vida cosmopolita. La vida en el campo, finalmente se cobra su peaje en ella, y ella se encuentra involucrada sexualmente con otro hombre.
Himself
The play, Sizwe Bansi is Dead, follows the main character, Sizwe, as he writes to his wife after an unsuccessful search for a new job and better life for his family. This film places the viewer in the discussions between the writers of the play: Athol Fugard, John Kani and Winston Ntshona as they attempt to explain and re-write the play.
George O'Brien
George, a black South African, finds it hard to settle down in London after his experiences in South Africa.
Sgt. Jesse Blake
Película de acción con un argumento muy similar al de "Los profesionales", pero ambientada en África. Granger es un hombre de negocios británico que contrata a Burton y sus mercenarios para realizar una peligrosa misión en Rhodesia: liberar a un líder del movimiento liberal negro liberal que está en poder de un dictador.
