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Zulu Love Letter is a french film of genre Drama with Akin Omotoso

Zulu Love Letter (2004)

Zulu Love Letter
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Length 1h45
OriginFrance
Genres Drama
Rating63% 3.181613.181613.181613.181613.18161

Lettre d'amour zoulou (ou Lettre d'amour zouloue ; Zulu Love Letter) est un film franco-germano-sud-africain réalisé par Ramadan Suleman en 2004, sorti en 2004 et dont le sujet est l'apartheid.

Synopsis

Thandeka, une jeune journaliste noire, vit dans la hantise du passé à Johannesburg, au point de ne plus parvenir à travailler et d'aller d'échec en échec dans ses relations avec sa fille Mangi, une enfant de treize ans sourde et muette. Un jour une vieille femme, Me'Tau, se présente au journal. Dix ans plus tôt, Thandeka a été témoin de l'assassinat de sa fille Dineo par une équipe de la police secrète. Me'Tau veut que Thandeka retrouve les meurtriers de Dineo et le corps de celle-ci afin qu'il soit enseveli conformément à la tradition. Ce que ne peut pas savoir Me'Tau c'est que Thandeka a déjà payé pour cette histoire, pour avoir osé affronter la machine blanche de l'apartheid. Mangi prépare en secret une lettre d'amour zoulou à sa mère, quatre images brodées représentant la solitude, l'abandon, l'espoir et l'amour, comme un geste ultime envers sa mère pour qu'elle n'abandonne pas le combat.

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Akin Omotoso

(Songs of Solomon (voix))
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