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A Million Colours (2011)

A Million Colours poster
Directed by
Peter Bishai
Genre
drama film, crime film
Country
South Africa
Runtime
1h 50m
Rating
7.2 of 10 from 5 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

This film follows two South African child actors who starred in a movie during the Soweto Uprising era. It traces their lives through the years up to Nelson Mandela's election.

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What happens

A Million Colours, also called Colors of Heaven, is a 2011 film directed by Peter Bishai and co-written with Andre Pieterse. It is based on the lives of Muntu Ndebele and Norman Knox, actors in the film Forever Young, Forever Free, also known as e'Lollipop. It follows them from the success of the film around the time of the Soweto Uprising, through to the election of Nelson Mandela. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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