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Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 0026359314322
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: Hbo Home Video
Manufacturer: Hbo Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Hbo Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: July 25, 2006
Running Time: 111 minutes
Sales Rank: 50893
Studio: Hbo Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: 2004
Editorial Review:
Product Description:
A suspense thriller set in South Africa in the same vein as the politically oriented and popular The Constant Gardener. The film follows human rights lawyer Sarah Barcant (Academy Award-winner Hilary Swank Million Dollar Baby and Alex Mpondo (Chiwetel Ejiofor Four Brothers) who find their lives changed forever by a hearing in the small town of Smitsriver. Police officer Dirk Henricks (Jamie Bartlett) is seeking amnesty for acts of torture he committed under the apartheid regime. Alex once part of an illegal anti-apartheid movement was one of Dirk's victims. Now living in New York City Sarah returns home to Smitsriver to investigate Dirk's crimes.Running Time: 110 min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: ACTION/ADVENTURE Rating: R UPC: 026359314322 Manufacturer No: 93143
Amazon.com:
Red Dust, Tom Hooper’s film chronicling police abuse and corruption in contemporary South Africa, reminds the viewer that apartheid and racism are hardly, if at all, things of the past. Chiweitel Ejiofor plays Alex Mpondo, a black man who is brutally tortured in prison by office Dirk Hendricks (Jamie Bartlett), for his involvement with local civil rights movements. Imprisoned for his brutal treatment of Mpondo, Hendricks requests amnesty and a court trial is organized, for which lawyer Sarah Barcant (Hilary Swank) is recruited to defend Mpondo. Mpondo is a highly-regarded politician, necessitating a subtle defense approach to preserve his career. Sarah defends Mpondo by publicly exposing another aspect of Hendricks’s dirty business: the killing of Mpondo’s friend and ex-political ally, Steve Sizela. As this extremely thick plot unfolds, the viewer begins to understand corruption’s complex nature. Cinematically, Red Dust features stunning panoramas of the South African landscape as well as some traditional African ceremonies that both fascinate and educate the average American as to how shocking it must be for a true African to assimilate into white culture. This film interprets not only Mpondo’s perspective, but, like the novels of Graham Greene or Sheila Kohler, it assesses white guilt in colonial countries. For this reason, Red Dust has an almost documentary feel, though its dramatic narrative makes its fiction clear, as a way to distance the viewer from real pain. --Trinie Dalton
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Not bad.
Red Dust (Tom Hooper, 2006)
Not a bad little flick, for what it is, but certainly not what I was expecting. Sarah Barcant (Hilary Swank), a lawyer who was born in South Africa but presently resides in New York, returns to South Africa to represent Alex Mpondo (Children of Men's Chiwetel Ejiofor). As discovery and trial unfold, a complex network of cover-ups and lies emerges, eventually encompassing most of the affluent inhabitants of the district, all of whom have been suspected of crimes ... Read More
Rating: - "We Have The Right To Say That It Hurt ~ Equitable Law In South Africa"
`Red Dust' released in '04 is a well produced, intelligent drama dealing with amnesty and apartheid in South Africa. This is not a true life account like the story of Steven Biko as chronicled in the '87 film `Cry Freedom' but it still carries quite an impact none-the-less. Obviously the distributors of this DVD wanted to make this comparison with the Denziel Washington, Kevin Kline movie, just look at the covers of both DVD's and the similarity will become immediately apparent.
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Rating:  - not a perfect film but powerful, moving, and WELL worth watching
This is a deeply moving depiction of the painful and difficult, yet morally essential, process of finding truth and arriving at forgiveness through the relatively recent and important work of South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Besides the substance of the story, much of the cinematography is beautiful.
Reviewing the book by the same title, by Gillian Slovo, on which the film is based, Publishers Weekly said "underscores that 'the full truth' is more complex than court transcript ... Read More
Rating: - A South African policeman asks for amnesty for tourturing a suspect
After the end of Apartheid in South Africa the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) was set up as a court-like body that would hear the stories of victims of violence, while perpetrators of violence could also provide testimony and ask for amnesty from prosecution. The idea was to put the past behind and move forward, but only by fully acknowledging the atrocities of the past. I think of what happened when Mary Tudor returned the Catholics to the English throne and the blood purge that took place and how ... Read More
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