Overview
U-CARMEN is a feature film based on Georges Bizet's 19th-century opera that was filmed on location in a modern South African township setting. The energy, compassion, and heat of township life in all its elements create a constantly visually interesting and dynamic background for the unfolding of the story, which owes part of its huge popularity to the thrilling combination of a violent gangster tale with a passionate, almost supernatural love story. As it unfolds, it explores issues of fame and wealth, the position of a strong and independently minded woman in a very masculine society and, perhaps most importantly, the incomprehensible attraction between abuser and victim. Bizet's opera, based on Prosper Merimée's novel, premiered in Paris on March 3, 1875. Set in a poor area of Seville, the story of the magnetic woman who seduces, loves, and ultimately destroys her lover and herself...
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- December 22, 2005
- Original language
- Xhosa
- Spoken languages
- English, Xhosa
- Countries
- South Africa
- Production
- Spier Films
- Cast
- Andries Mbali,Noluthando Boqwana,Andile Tshoni,Pauline Malefane,Zweilungile Sidloyi,Andiswa Kedama,Zamile Gantana,Ross Garland,Lungelwa Blou,Ruby Mthethwa
- Director
- Mark Dornford-May
- Writer
- Mark Dornford-May,Henri Meilhac,Pauline Malefane,Prosper Mérimée,Andiswa Kedama,Ludovic Halévy
- Producer
- Mark Dornford-May,Ross Garland
- Cinematography
- Giulio Biccari
- Budget
- Not recorded
- Revenue
- Not recorded
- IMDb
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