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Linda Mvusi est une Actrice Sud africaine

Linda Mvusi

Linda Mvusi
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Nationalité Afrique du sud
Naissance à Bloemfontein (Afrique du sud)

Linda Mvusi (né vers 1955 à Bloemfontein) est une actrice sud-africaine ayant remporté le prix d'interprétation féminine au Festival de Cannes 1988 en compagnie de Barbara Hershey et Jodhi May pour les rôles de Elsie, Diana Roth et Molly Roth dans Un monde à part (A World Apart) de Chris Menges.

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Linda Mvusi was born in the Free State in (about) 1955 and was brought up in Northern Rhodesia, Ghana and Kenya. She trained as an architect and was practising her craft in Harare when she met Chris Menges who was trying to find locations for his film, A World Apart, near Bulawayo. Mvusi was initially wary of this film as she suspected it was a film made by outsiders with foreign money for a foreign audience. Mvusi felt that the millions of foreign money was preventing Africans from telling their own story. She said "white film makers [are] suppressing our own growth, our own view of history [and] our own reality". However Menges impressed her when he began to cast locals and ANC members into the cast.

The film was based on an autobiographical play by Shawn Slovo. The film tells the story of thirteen-year-old Shawn Slovo the daughter of Joe Slovo. It is primarily about her mother Ruth First's life. The film explores the relationship between the daughter and her white mother. The mother is committed to the fight against the political oppression in South Africa, but the pressure of the family and politics collide and bring about the families break-up. It is set at the time of the apartheid regime in South Africa. Joe Slovo was then the head of the communist party in South Africa. In the film the names of the parents are changed to Gus and Diana Roth and their daughter is renamed Molly. In real life and in the film they employed a maid to care for their child. This person, Elsie, was played by Mvusi in the film.



Menges said he preferred to work with non-professional actors like Mvusi and Jodhi May (she played Molly in the film). This view may have reflected however the poor relationship between Menges and Barbara Hershey, who played the leading role of the mother. Mvusi reported that there were many arguments during the making of the film. Much of the tension was due to not wanting to lose the "black story", but Mvusi felt the arguments were worth it as the film was true to its message. She credits Menges with ensuring that they "are extremely sympathetic, because they are true." The film was dedicated to Ruth First who was killed by a parcel bomb sent by the South African Police in 1982.

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Filmographie de Linda Mvusi (1 films)

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Un monde à part, 1h52
Réalisé par Chris Menges
Origine Royaume-uni
Genres Drame
Thèmes Afrique post-coloniale, Le racisme
Acteurs Jodhi May, Barbara Hershey, Jeroen Krabbé, Tim Roth, David Suchet, Kate Fitzpatrick
Rôle Elsie
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Le film est consacré à l'Afrique du Sud en 1963 au temps de l'apartheid, vue au travers des yeux d'une jeune fille de 13 ans dont le père, qui est journaliste a dû partir, pour des raisons politiques et dont la mère, qui est journaliste elle aussi, fait 90 jours de garde à vue à cause de son combat contre l'apartheid. Le film s'appuie sur l'une histoire vraie de la scénariste Shawn Slovo et de ses parents.