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Breathe Umphefumlo
Synopsis
"The striking and brutal realities of the students struggling for food, shelter and medication. Mimi's death from TB - and her illness unnoticed at first even by her closest friends - cannot but send a chilling chord in our modern world." A Cape Town-set reworking of Puccini’s La Bohème, sung in Xhosa (with some English dialogue).
'Breathe Umphefumlo' sees director Mark Dornford-May (U-Carmen eKhayelitsha) reunited with singer Pauline Malefane and the Isango Ensemble.
Berlinale 2015, Berlinale Special - World premiere
Details
- Year
- 2015
- Type of film
- Features
- Running Time
- 90 mins
- Director
- Mark Dornford-May
- Producer
- Mark Dornford-May, Vlokkie Gordon
- Co-Producer
- Christoph Bauer, Felix Blum, Florian Caspar Seibel (aka Richter)
- Executive Producer
- Mike Downey, Sam Taylor
- Editor
- Tanja Hagen
- Screenwriter
- Mark Dornford-May, Pauline Malefane (based on La Bohème Librettos by Luigi Illica, Giuseppe Giacosa))
- Director of Photography
- Matthys Mocke
- Production Designer
- Birrie Le Roux
- Music
- Mandisi Dyantyis, Pauline Malefane (Based on La Bohème by Giacomo Puccini)
- Principal Cast
- Pauline Malefane, Mhlekazi (Wha Wha) Mosiea, Busisiwe Ngejane, Sifiso Lupuzi, Luvo Rasemeni
Genre
Production status
Complete
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Last updated 2nd June 2015
