Life, above all
2011
DVD
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.
Item Details
ISBN: 9786314488796
Description: 2 videodiscs (ca. 106 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Target Audience Note: CHVR: PG.
Notes:
- Title from container.
- Based upon the novel "Chanda's secrets" by Allan Stratton.
- Special features : the making of "Life above all" ; BD Live enabled.
- Casting director, Moonyeenn Lee ; costume designer, Nadia Kruger ; art directors, Christiane Rothe, Tracy Perkins ; editor, Dirk Grau ; director of photography, Bernhard Jasper ; music by Ali N. Askin, Ian Osrin ; associate producer, Daniela Ramin ; executive producer, Helge Sasse ; co-producers, Greig Buckle and Thomas Reisser, Dan Schlanger.
- Khomotso Manyaka, Lerato Mvelase, Harriet Manamela, Keaobaka Makanyane, Tinah Mnumzama.
- DVD ; widescreen (2.35:1) presentation ; Dolby Digital.
- For private home use only.
- Audio tracks in Northern Sotha with subtitles in English, English SDH, and French.
Publisher or Distributor Number: 38776
Control Number: 875103
UPC: 043396387768
Publisher: Culver City, CA : Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, c2011.Subjects:
- AIDS (Disease) -- Drama.
- Africa -- Drama.
- Conduct of life -- Drama.
- Family secrets -- Drama.
- Foreign films.
- Gossip -- Drama.
- HIV-positive persons -- Drama.
- Interpersonal relations -- Drama.
- Mothers and daughters -- Drama.
- Sisters -- Drama.
Genre:
Other Authors:
- Bavaria Film International (Firm)
- Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment (Firm)
- Enigma Productions.
- Jasper, Bernhard.
- Lenabe, Harriet.
- Makanyane, Keaobaka.
- Manyaka, Khomotso, 1996-
- Mnumzama, Tinah.
- Mvelase, Lerato, 1982-
- Schmitz, Oliver.
- Senator Film (Firm)
- Sony Pictures Classics (Firm)
- Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (Firm)
- Stratton, Allan.