Michael Raeburn

Nascimento : 1943-01-22, Cairo, Egypt

História

Studied at Alfred Beit School and St. Georges School in Rhodesia. Studied at the University of Rhodesia in 1964. French Honours Degree, London University. Doctorial thesis on cinema, University of Aix en Provence. Lives between Southern Africa, Paris and London.

Filmes

Triomf
Writer
Adaptation of award winning novel by Marlene van Niekerk. Triomf is about the ultimate dysfunctional family, the Benades, poor white working class Afrikaner trailer trash on the eve of the first democratic election in South Africa.
Triomf
Director
Adaptation of award winning novel by Marlene van Niekerk. Triomf is about the ultimate dysfunctional family, the Benades, poor white working class Afrikaner trailer trash on the eve of the first democratic election in South Africa.
Zimbabwe Countdown
Director
Once touted as Zimbabwe's saviour, Robert Mugabe has become synonymous with bad government and misrule. But where did it all go wrong?
Home Sweet Home
Director
Jit
Screenplay
A young African man must try every trick in the book in this attempts to win the heart of the most beautiful girl in his village.
Jit
Director
A young African man must try every trick in the book in this attempts to win the heart of the most beautiful girl in his village.
The Grass Is Singing
Screenplay
In Southern Rhodesia in the 1940s, city-dweller Mary marries farmer Dick Turner and is plucked from the comforts of her cosmopolitan life and forced to live on his unsuccessful farm. Mary slowly goes insane and has a sexual affair with her black servant, Moses. When the affair is discovered, Mary asks Moses to leave the farm, but he returns and murders her.
The Grass Is Singing
Director
In Southern Rhodesia in the 1940s, city-dweller Mary marries farmer Dick Turner and is plucked from the comforts of her cosmopolitan life and forced to live on his unsuccessful farm. Mary slowly goes insane and has a sexual affair with her black servant, Moses. When the affair is discovered, Mary asks Moses to leave the farm, but he returns and murders her.
Requiem for a Village
Producer
The idyllic, rural past of a Suffolk village comes to life through the memories of an old man who tends a country graveyard.
Rhodesia Countdown
This film explores the conflicts within Rhodesian society in 1969.
Rhodesia Countdown
Writer
This film explores the conflicts within Rhodesian society in 1969.
Rhodesia Countdown
Director
This film explores the conflicts within Rhodesian society in 1969.