📜 Overview:
U-CARMEN is a feature film based on Georges Bizet's 19th-century opera that was filmed on location in a modern South African township setting. The energy, compassion, and heat of township life in all its elements create a constantly visually interesting and dynamic background for the unfolding of the story, which owes part of its huge popularity to the thrilling combination of a violent gangster tale with a passionate, almost supernatural love story. As it unfolds, it explores issues of fame and wealth, the position of a strong and independently minded woman in a very masculine society and, perhaps most importantly, the incomprehensible attraction between abuser and victim. Bizet's opera, based on Prosper Merimée's novel, premiered in Paris on March 3, 1875. Set in a poor area of Seville, the story of the magnetic woman who seduces, loves, and ultimately destroys her lover and herself...
🌏 Languages Available:
Xhosa
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English
📆 Date Released:
2005-12-22
⌚ Running Time:
122 mins
⭐ Vote Average:
6.0
Beloved Cast
Carmen
Pauline Malefane
Jongikhaya
Andile Tshoni
Nomakhaya
Lungelwa Blou
Lulamile Nkomo
Zweilungile Sidloyi
Bra Nkomo
Andries Mbali
Captain Gantana
Zamile Gantana
Amanda
Andiswa Kedama
Pinki
Ruby Mthethwa
Manelisa
Noluthando Boqwana
Policeman
Ross Garland
