Description
Based on South African playwright Athol Fugard's only novel, TSOTSI is a thrilling, provocative look at life in the ghettos outside present-day Johannesburg. Presley Chweneyagae stars as the title character, a teenager with a killer stare who lives alone in a ramshackle room in a poor shantytown, where he pulls off petty crimes with the help of three compatriots--Boston (Mothusi Magano), Butcher (Zenzo Ngqobe), and Aap (Kenneth Nkosi). But after they stab a man to death on the subway and Tsotsi (which means "thug" or "gangster") beats up Boston for trying to find out about his past, Tsotsi runs off to a wealthy section of the city, shoots a woman, and steals her car. Only later does he discover that there is a baby in the back seat--and decides to keep it for himself. As Tsotsi finally does look back at his own childhood, he tries to take care of the infant, carrying it around in a paper bag and forcing a young mother, Miriam (Terry Pheto), to breastfeed it at gunpoint.
Product Information
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ISBN13 (SKU)
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5060116720495
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Title
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Tsotsi (DVD)
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Author
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Athol Fugard
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Edition
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1st
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Publisher
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NEXT Entertainment
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Publication Date
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2006
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Country of Publication
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South Africa
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Publishing Status
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-
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Format Type
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Physical
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Institutions
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Embury
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Course Codes
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DL-ZHLF200
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