La Boheme: Breathe Umphefumlo
2015 · Movie · 90 min. · South Africa
A South African township set version of Puccini’s La Bohème. 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.
Direction Mark Dornford-May
Cast Noluthando Boqwana · Zamile Gantana · Sifiso Lupuzi · Pauline Malefane · Zebulon Mmusi · Mhlekazi Mosiea · Busisiwe Ngejane · Luvo Rasemeni
Soundtrack Mandisi Dyantyis · Pauline Malefane
Screenplay Pauline Malefane · Mark Dornford-May · Luigi Illica · Giuseppe Giacosa · Giacomo Puccini
Cinematography Matthys Mocke
Original title Breathe Umphefumlo
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Not rated (FilmAffinity)
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