Athol Fugard
Know for: Acting
Born: 1932-06-11
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Gandhi (1982)
In the early years of the 20th century, Mohandas K. Gandhi, a British-trained lawyer, forsakes all worldly possessions to take up the cause of Indian...
Marigolds in August (1980)
Marigolds in August was written by Athol Fugard, who in the early 1980s was South Africa's most celebrated playwright. Fugard's intense political...
A Sizwe Bansi Workshop (1981)
The play, Sizwe Bansi is Dead, follows the main character, Sizwe, as he writes to his wife after an unsuccessful search for a new job and better life...
The Space: Theatre of Survival (2019)
When everything about you falls one man decides that theatre is the key, and the way to begin to unify a people. A film about the life and times of...
Meetings with Remarkable Men (1979)
The story of G.I. Gurdjieff an Asian mystic who after a lifetimes study developed a form of meditation incorporating modern dance.
In Darkest Hollywood: Cinema and Apartheid (1994)
A documentary overview and ideological critique of the South African film industry and cinema's historical relationship with apartheid.
The Guest: An Episode in the Life of Eugène Marais (1977)
An episode in the Life of Eugène Marais
Boesman and Lena (1973)
A portrait of a marginalised couple evicted by forced removal in apartheid South Africa.
The Road to Mecca (1991)
An eldery lady, living in (litterally) the middle if nowhere, and fed up with small minded apartheid ideology starts escaping into her own world of...
The Killing Fields (1984)
New York Times reporter Sydney Schanberg is on assignment covering the Cambodian Civil War, with the help of local interpreter Dith Pran and American...
Falls the Shadow: The Life and Times of Athol Fugard (2012)
Director Tony Palmer tells the incredible life story of Athol Fugard, the prolific playwright, novelist, and director who exposed the horrors of...
The Public's Right to Know (1974)
A documentary in which Kenneth Griffith, actor and filmmaker, endeavors to find the truth behind the banning of two of his films, one on the life of...
Tsotsi (2005)
The South African multi-award winning film about a young South African boy from the ghetto named Tsotsi, meaning Gangster. Tsotsi, who left home as a...
Boesman and Lena (1973)
A portrait of a marginalised couple evicted by forced removal in apartheid South Africa.
'Master Harold'... and the Boys (1985)
When Harold, a young white man, learns that his alcoholic, handicapped father is returning home, his frustration turns into racist viciousness...
The Road to Mecca (1991)
An eldery lady, living in (litterally) the middle if nowhere, and fed up with small minded apartheid ideology starts escaping into her own world of...
The Road to Mecca (1991)
An eldery lady, living in (litterally) the middle if nowhere, and fed up with small minded apartheid ideology starts escaping into her own world of...
The Guest: An Episode in the Life of Eugène Marais (1977)
An episode in the Life of Eugène Marais
Marigolds in August (1980)
Marigolds in August was written by Athol Fugard, who in the early 1980s was South Africa's most celebrated playwright. Fugard's intense political...
Mille Miglia (1968)
In 1955 Stirling Moss and Denis Jenkinson won the Mille Miglia, one of the toughest races in the calendar.This play is about the two men, and the...
Master Harold... and the Boys (2010)
This movie is of Hally, an adolescent white South African. He is stuck between his intolerant father's outlook of him and those of his caretaker,...
Boesman and Lena (2000)
Intense love and hate bring a man and woman through personal tragedy.
"Master Harold" ...and the Boys (2020)
A poignant coming of age story and exploration of a friendship between a young white boy, and the two adult black men he has grown up around, against...
Sizwe Bansi is Dead (1974)
Two Black South Africans discover what it means to lose their passbooks, which they must carry yo prove their identity during the apartheid era