U-Carmen eKhayelitsha (2005)

  • NR
  • 12/22/2005 (DE)
  • Music, Drama, Romance
  • 2h 2m

Overview

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...

Mark Dornford-May

Director, Writer

Pauline Malefane

Writer

Andiswa Kedama

Writer

Prosper Mérimée

Novel

Cast

Pauline Malefane's headshot

Pauline Malefane

Carmen
Andile Tshoni's headshot

Andile Tshoni

Jongikhaya
Lungelwa Blou's headshot

Lungelwa Blou

Nomakhaya
Zweilungile Sidloyi's headshot

Zweilungile Sidloyi

Lulamile Nkomo
Andries Mbali's headshot

Andries Mbali

Bra Nkomo
Zamile Gantana's headshot

Zamile Gantana

Captain Gantana
Andiswa Kedama's headshot

Andiswa Kedama

Amanda
Ruby Mthethwa's headshot

Ruby Mthethwa

Pinki

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