Movie
Skin
Overview
Based on the true story of a black girl who was born to two white Afrikaner parents in South Africa during the apartheid era.
Details
- Release date
- 2009-07-24
- Runtime
- 107 min
- Genres
- Drama
- Status
- Released
- Production
- Elysian Films, Industrial Development Corporation of South Africa, The National Film and Video Foundation of South Africa
- Country
- South Africa, United Kingdom
- Original language
- EN
Cast
- Sophie Okonedo as Sandra Laing
- Alice Krige as Sannie Lang
- Sam Neill as Abraham Laing
- Terri Ann Eckstein as Elsie Laing (aged 19)
- Bongani Masondo as Henry Laing (aged 20)
- Dan Robbertse as Factory Foreman
- Jeremy Crutchley as TV Reporter
- Tony Kgoroge as Petrus Zwane
- Ella Ramangwane as Young Sandra
Crew
- Anthony Fabian - Director
- Helen Crawley - Screenplay
- Jessie Keyt - Screenplay
- Helena Kriel - Screenplay
- Anthony Fabian - Story
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