Directed by:
Euzhan PalcyScreenplay:
Colin WellandComposer:
Dave GrusinCast:
Marlon Brando, Donald Sutherland, Janet Suzman, Zakes Mokae, Jürgen Prochnow, Susan Sarandon, Winston Ntshona, Susannah Harker, Richard Wilson (more)VOD (2)
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With this bracing drama, made at the climax of the anti-apartheid movement, director Euzhan Palcy issued a devastating indictment of South Africa’s racist government—and made history in the process, becoming the first black woman to direct a Hollywood studio film. White schoolteacher Ben Du Toit (Donald Sutherland) lives in Johannesburg and remains blissfully incurious about the lives of his black countrymen until a wave of brutal repression comes crashing down on his gardener (Winston Ntshona), bringing Du Toit face-to-face with harsh political realities. Based on a celebrated novel by André Brink and rooted in the first-hand research the Martinican Palcy did in South Africa into the way black people lived under apartheid, A Dry White Season is unflinching in its depiction of violence and its chronicling of injustice, making for a galvanizing tribute to those willing to sacrifice everything to fight oppression. (Criterion)
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A Dry White Season
An Original MGM Motion Picture Soundtrack
Label: Kritzerland
Year: 2011
Length: 36:10
| 1. | Happier Times | Dave Grusin | 01:01 |
| 2. | Grandfatherly / Demonstrations | Dave Grusin | 02:39 |
| 3. | Aftermath / Dead Children | Dave Grusin | 02:08 |
| 4. | He's My Child / I Never Saw Him / Gordon's Arrest | Dave Grusin | 01:47 |
| 5. | Torture | Dave Grusin | 01:22 |
| 6. | Monsters Win / Funeral Parlor | Dave Grusin | 02:41 |
| 7. | Wife Waffles / Flashbacks | Dave Grusin | 02:30 |
| 8. | Gordon Tortured | Dave Grusin | 02:11 |
| 9. | The Search / Christmas In The Park | Dave Grusin | 03:30 |
| 10. | Without Slap / Emily's Beating | Dave Grusin | 01:26 |
| 11. | Father And Son | Dave Grusin | 02:19 |
| 12. | Garage Explodes / Ben Knows | Dave Grusin | 01:55 |
| 13. | Father And Daughter / Stoltz And Suzette | Dave Grusin | 02:37 |
| 14. | Ben's Death | Dave Grusin | 01:54 |
| 15. | Stanley Kills Stoltz | Dave Grusin | 00:58 |
| 16. | The Search (Alternate) | Dave Grusin | 00:54 |
| 17. | Source Music 1 | Dave Grusin | 02:04 |
| 18. | Source Music 2 | Dave Grusin | 01:24 |
| 19. | Ben's Death (Alternate) | Dave Grusin | 00:50 |