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Title Life, above all / a Sony Pictures Classics release ; Bavaria International presents ; a Dreamer Joint Venture Production ; in co-production with Senator Film Produktion Enigma Pictures and Niama Film ; written by Dennis Foon ; producer, Oliver Stoltz ; directed by Oliver Schmitz.

Publication Info. [United States] : Columbia Tristar Home Entertainment, [2010]
℗2011

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Location Call No. Status
 New Britain, Main Library - Audio-Visual Materials  NSO DVD LIFE    Check Shelf
Edition Widescreen edition.
Description 1 videodisc (approximately 106 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
System Details DVD ; widescreen (2.35:1) presentation ; Dolby digital 5.1 surround.
Cast Khomotso Manyaka, Lerato Mvelase, Harriet Manamela, Keaobaka Makanyane, Tinah Mnumzana.
Credits Editor, Dirk Grau ; director of photography, Bernhard Jasper ; music, Ali N. Askin, Ian Osrin.
Note Based on the novel "Chanda's secrets" by Allan Stratton.
DVD release of the 2010 motion picture.
Audience MPAA rating: PG-13; for mature thematic material and some sexual content.
Summary Just after the death of her newly born sister, Chanda, 12-years old, learns of a rumor that spreads like wildfire through her dust-ridden village near Johannesburg. It destroys her family and forces her mother to flee. Sensing that the gossip stems from prejudice and superstition, Chanda leaves home and school in search of her mother and the truth.
Language In English, with optional subtitles in English or French.
Closed-captioned.
Note GMD: videorecording.
Subject Mothers and daughters -- Drama.
Sisters -- Drama.
Gossip -- Drama.
Family secrets -- Drama.
AIDS (Disease) -- Fiction.
HIV-positive persons -- Drama.
Conduct of life -- Drama.
Interpersonal relations -- Drama.
Africa -- Fiction.
Added Author Manyaka, Khomotso, 1996-
Mvelase, Lerato, 1982-
Lenabe, Harriet.
Makanyane, Keaobaka.
Mnumzana, Tinah.
Schmitz, Oliver.
Jasper, Bernhard.
Stratton, Allan.
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment (Firm)
Sony Pictures Classics (Firm)
Bavaria Film International (Firm)
Senator Film (Firm)
Enigma Productions.
ISBN 9786314488796
6314488796
Standard No. 043396387768
Music No. 38776 Columbia Tristar Home Entertainment
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