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A Million Colours is a canadien film of genre Drama with Stelio Stavante
A Million Colours (2011)
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Add to a movie listA Million Colours 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.
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Une histoire d'amour et d'amitié contre la violence de l'apartheid en Afrique du Sud. Elle retrace les hauts et les bas de la vie de trois personnages qui se croisent au fil des ans.Actors
Stelio Stavante
(Major Shawn Dixon)
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