Darrell Roodt

Darrell James Roodt was born on 28 April 1962 in Johannesburg. His first films, made in the mid-1980s, openly condemned apartheid, and one of them was initially banned by the censors. He then brought to the screen a musical by Mbongeni Ngema about the schoolchildren of Soweto, with Whoopi Goldberg, presented at Cannes in 1992, followed by a new adaptation of Alan Paton's novel, with James Earl Jones. Since then he has directed more than thirty feature films as well as television series.

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• CinemaPlace of WeepingDarrell Roodt · 1986Cinema