Bopha! (1993)
Genre: Drama
Duration: 120 minuten
Country:
United States
Directed by: Morgan Freeman
Stars: Danny Glover, Malcolm McDowell and Alfre Woodard
IMDb score:
6,5 (1.076)
Releasedate: 16 September 1993
Bopha! plot
Micah is a sergeant of the police force in South Africa. Without questioning, he helps to maintain the existing power structures. But the fierce battle that broke out in 1980 violently tears his own life apart. When his son realizes that apartheid is diabolical and that Micah is part of this system, it eventually escalates into a huge riot.
Actors and actresses
Micah Mangena
De Villiers
Rosie Mangena
Van Tonder
Zweli Mangena
Pule Rampa
Reviews & comments
Lovelyboy
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- 3906 messages
- 2920 votes
More than nice drama that seems to have been missed by the masses and most users here, or so it seems.
More than a fine film about the problems in one specific township, the struggle between the government and the dark-skinned population is more than well presented. In between, of course, people like Mangena who do their job with a great sense of duty and somewhat blind to the real situation and give their child a pretty good life with choices.
The final unrest and problems take a while and the approach of the children and Pule, for example, do not lie. McDowell, known as the great villain from A clockwork..., can enjoy himself as an unscrupulous lawman who does what he has to do and of course without any remorse or remorse. The final outcome around Mangena makes you think that he has learned, yet he has to pay the heaviest price, the speeding vehicles in the credits give the impression that the battle has barely begun. I must say I think the ending is quite good, not an excess of forgiveness and sweetness that could have easily been done.
The end result is a more than fine drama about the early days of the struggle for Apartheid. Good roles by Glover and McDowell, but also Eziashi and Robin Smith are worth mentioning. It's a really good movie and it's strange that so few people voted for it.
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Dievegge
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- 3166 messages
- 8191 votes
Morgan Freeman has a thing for prisons. He played in Brubaker and another prison drama, and his directorial debut also features a prison. Bopha is Zulu for detention. Another word is chanted in a demonstration against apartheid: amandla or force.
The 1980s were a period of upheaval in South Africa. In Moroka, a township in Pretoria, there are protests, riots and arrests. Students no longer want to speak Afrikaans in class, but they do want to speak English. That is strange, because English is also a language of a colonizer.
It has not become a preachy story of the good against the bad. The conflict is inside a family, when a father and a son find themselves in opposing camps. For Micah, this leads to a dilemma of conscience. He is proud of his job in the police force, which allows him to support his family, but that makes him part of the oppressor's system. This role is cleverly played by Danny Glover, who has adopted the right accent. Malcolm Macdowell has a supporting role as a representative of authority.
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