Katrina (1969)

Directed by

Jans Rautenbach

Genre

drama film

Country

South Africa

Runtime

1h 41m

Rating

6.8 of 10 from 5 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

In 1960s South Africa a young Coloured woman tries to pass as white under apartheid. Her secret is exposed and her family must face the consequences.

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What happens

Katrina is a 1969 South African drama film directed by Jans Rautenbach and starring Katinka Heyns, Jill Kirkland and Don Leonard. Based on a play called Try for White by Basil Warner, the film depicts the lives of a family of a Coloured South Africans, who in the apartheid system are considered neither white nor black, in which Katrina, the daughter, attempts to appear white, before her secret is exposed. The screenplay was written by Emil Nofal. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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