Skin (2008 film)
- Sophie Okonedo: Sandra Laing
- Sam Neill: Abraham Laing
- Alice Krige: Sannie Laing
- Tony Kgoroge Petrus Zwane
- Terri Ann Eckstein: Elsie Laing (19 years)
- Bongani Masondo: Henry Laing (20 years)
- Ella Ramangwane: teenagers Sandra Laing
- Jeremy Crutchley Hugh Johnston
- Jonathan Pienaar: Van Niekerk
- Hannes Brummer: Leon Laing
- Onida Cowan: Miss Van Uys
- Lauren Das Neves: Elize
Skin - cry for justice ( Alternative title: In black skin - A True Story, also: Skin - In black skin, original title: Skin) is a biographical film drama about Sandra Laing, a South African woman who comes from Afrikaner parents, but because of genetic shares the parent expresses a black African appearance and must wrestle in the apartheid era in South Africa to their identity.
Action
The film follows the protagonist from a relatively carefree childhood in the 1960s to the end of apartheid.
With its enrollment and its rejection by the teachers and the parents of classmates of the fight of her stubborn father to the status of his daughter begins as whites. The father, a rural shop owner, lives a completely self-evident racism in his dealings with others, but wants at any cost, that all his daughter accept than whites, and this forces eventually formally by all instances. However, when he wants to promote their association with Afrikaner marriage candidates escalated their identity crisis as she gets on clearly feel that they will never be accepted as full white.
She eventually falls in love secretly in a black and expecting a child by him. Thus, it leads the fight of father about her status ad absurdum, for decades what it can not get over. It comes to a head Sandra with her family and bitterness between their parents because the mother loves her unconditionally, but the father prevents any further contact.
Living with her husband under the laws of apartheid a crime and their voluntary classification than blacks, which would be a prerequisite for a marriage fails due to bureaucratic hurdles.
In life with the black relatives of her husband, she seems temporarily to find family happiness and comfort despite the most difficult circumstances. But the ongoing injustice and violence of the white upper class wears down her husband, who eventually sinks like her father in bitterness and becomes violent.
She fled with her children to Johannesburg and worked themselves and their children than blacks a modest life in dignity. She always looks for her mother, but a reconciliation is possible only after the father's death and the end of apartheid.
Reviews
Peter Bradshaw considers the 2009 movie in his review in the British newspaper The Guardian as an intelligent drama and praised the performances of Sophie Okonedo, Sam Neill and Alice Krige ("This quietly intelligent drama, based on a true story, finds a new way of dramatising race, class and society in apartheid -era South Africa, and it Boasts fine performances by Sophie Okonedo, Sam Neill and Alice Krige ").
Robert McKay, however, writes in 2010 in his review in the Johannesburg edition of the Sunday Times, the film put the apartheid Although from a refreshingly personal - as opposed to a purely political - perspective is criticized, however, the film 'm not really deep enough to contribute to a further understanding of the split identity in multiracial South Africa ( "It's a refreshingly personal - as Opposed to Purely political - perspective on apartheid, but the film does not really dig deep enough to add anything to our understanding of the splintered identity of multiracial SA. "). The outstanding performances of Sophie Okonedo is not authentic enough, in his view; However, he praised the actor's performance of Alice Krige and Tony Kgoroge.
Synchronization
The German synchronization was performed by Interopa film in Berlin under the direction of Christoph Cierpka.