Athol Fugard
Birthday: 1932-06-11
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Biography: Harold Athol Lanigan Fugard (June 11, 1932 – March 8, 2025) was a South African playwright, novelist, actor and director. Widely considered South Africa's foremost playwright, he is best remembered for his anti-apartheid plays such as "Master Harold"...and the Boys and Blood Knot.
Movies
Gandhi
In the early years of the 20th century, Mohandas K. Gandhi, a British-trained lawyer, forsakes all w...
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Marigolds in August
Marigolds in August was written by Athol Fugard, who in the early 1980s was South Africa's most cele...
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A Sizwe Bansi Workshop
The play, Sizwe Bansi is Dead, follows the main character, Sizwe, as he writes to his wife after an ...
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The Space: Theatre of Survival
When everything about you falls one man decides that theatre is the key, and the way to begin to uni...
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Meetings with Remarkable Men
The story of G.I. Gurdjieff an Asian mystic who after a lifetimes study developed a form of meditati...
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In Darkest Hollywood: Cinema and Apartheid
A documentary overview and ideological critique of the South African film industry and cinema's hist...
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The Guest: An Episode in the Life of Eugène Marais
An episode in the Life of Eugène Marais...
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Boesman and Lena
A portrait of a marginalised couple evicted by forced removal in apartheid South Africa....
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The Road to Mecca
An eldery lady, living in (litterally) the middle if nowhere, and fed up with small minded apartheid...
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The Killing Fields
New York Times reporter Sydney Schanberg is on assignment covering the Cambodian Civil War, with the...
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Falls the Shadow: The Life and Times of Athol Fugard
Director Tony Palmer tells the incredible life story of Athol Fugard, the prolific playwright, novel...
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The Public's Right to Know
A documentary in which Kenneth Griffith, actor and filmmaker, endeavors to find the truth behind the...
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