Fools

Credits

Name: Fools

Country: Südafrika

Year of publication: 1997

Format: 35 mm

Color: color

Language : OF m. engl. UT

Duration: 105 Minuten

Direction: Suleman, Ramadan

Screenplay: Peterson, Bhekizizwe; Suleman, Ramadan

Camera: Bouquin, Jacques

Editing: Lack, Christiane

Sound: Sénéchal, Philippe

Actor: Shai, Patrick; Kente, Dambisa; Dandala, Hlomla

Abstract

The long-awaited, much-anticipated first feature film by a black South African director. Adapted from Njabulo S. Ndebele`s novella of the same name but set a decade later during the final years of the apartheid regime, FOOLS tells the story of a disgraced middle-aged schoolteacher who is confronted by an 18-year-old activist whose sister he raped. According to Mr. Suleman, the film is "not about the eternal conflict between the`white devil` and the`noble black,` but simply the black people of South Africa; the state of their consciences, education, their brutal oppression by the Afrikaners, sexual violence, and the place of women in the South African community."

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