The anti-apartheid South African drama premiered 35 years ago at Cannes.
Film Movement has acquired all rights for North America to the digital restoration of Oliver Schmitz’s 1988 anti-apartheid drama Mapantsula, currently celebrating the 35th anniversary of its world premiere at that year’s Cannes festival.
The company plans a theatrical release late this year under its Film Movement Classics banner, followed by a wide release on home entertainment and digital platforms.
Mapantsula - which examines racial discrimination and resistance to the then South African regime through the story of a ‘mapantsula,’ or petty gangster, arrested by police during a demonstration...
Film Movement has acquired all rights for North America to the digital restoration of Oliver Schmitz’s 1988 anti-apartheid drama Mapantsula, currently celebrating the 35th anniversary of its world premiere at that year’s Cannes festival.
The company plans a theatrical release late this year under its Film Movement Classics banner, followed by a wide release on home entertainment and digital platforms.
Mapantsula - which examines racial discrimination and resistance to the then South African regime through the story of a ‘mapantsula,’ or petty gangster, arrested by police during a demonstration...
- 5/22/2023
- by John Hazelton
- ScreenDaily
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