With Danny Glover and Angela Bassett.

"[Athol Fugard's play] brings the sensibility of Beckett's WAITING FOR GODOT to the horrors of life as a non-person in a racially exclusive state. Two ragged wanderers…meet on a riverbank, where they try to scavenge food and firewood in order to survive the night. As they talk, their bitterness about the ways their lives have gone begins to emerge, as well as the tragedies they've suffered at the hands of a racist government. Gradually, you realize that they've been husband and wife in a relationship that has been plundered by the poisonous influence of apartheid, reducing them to a level in which they have to remind themselves of their own humanity and their ability to make human connections." -Marshall Fine

BOESMAN AND LENA
by John Berry
2000, 90 minutes, 35mm

BOESMAN AND LENA is a play by South Africa's Athol Fugard (written in 1969).