Schoolmaster (The)

  • Maître d'école (Le)
Genre : Historical
Type : Fiction
Original title :
Principal country concerned : Column : Cinema/tv
Year of production : 1990
Format : Feature
Running time : 97 (in minutes)

A Polish immigrant schoolteacher, Rozinsky, is assigned to teach at a rural South African school serving bywoners. He falls in love with a colored young girl and has to challenge racist apartheid-era views in the South African countryside.  The inhabitants do not want leave him go alive.

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