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A Child from the South (1991)

A Child from the South poster
Directed by
Sérgio Rezende
Genre
drama film
Country
United Kingdom
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A journalist who has been exiled from South Africa for twenty years returns to cover a United Nations conference there. Her personal history collides with her professional duties as she confronts the ghosts of the past.

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What happens

A Child From the South was a 1991 television movie about a Nadia (played by Josette Simon), a young journalist, in political exile from South Africa since her father's assassination twenty years earlier and her return to cover a United Nations conference. It was written by Chris Austin, Gill Bond and Leyga Zendare and directed by Sergio Rezende. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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