Ross Devenish
Know for: Directing
Born: 1939-11-15
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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.
Goal! (1966)
This entertaining documentary of the World Cup Soccer tournament of 1966 follows the 15 countries competing for the sport's most coveted prize. Nigel...
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.
Death of a Son (1989)
The true story of Pauline Williams, who struggled to bring the people who supplied her son with the illegal drugs that caused his death to justice.
Asinamali (1986)
Five black men in South Africa end up in jail - for crimes which range from shooting a security policeman to sleeping with a white boss's wife. What...
Frontline: The Search for Truth in Wartime (1983)
“What is the role of the media in wartime? Is it simply to record or is it to explain, and from whose point of view – the military,...
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 Chip of Glass Ruby (1982)
In this drama, the Banjee family resides in an area of Johannesburg where Indians are no longer permitted to live. Mr. Bamjee is a vegetable seller...
A Certain Justice (1998)
The story is about the murder of Venetia Aldridge, a QC (Queen's Council) in a London "Chambers" and a very ambitious barrister who has a track...
The Happy Valley (1987)
In 1940 Kenya as their country prepares for war, the local aristocratic social set lives a decadent, self-indulgent lifestyle, that leads to murder. ...