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In a Time of Violence: The Line (1994)

In a Time of Violence: The Line (1994)

Thriller TV Movie

A story concerning changing values, violent cultural and political clashes and conflict among black families in Johannesburg, South Africa.

Release Date: 1994, July 1
Directors: Brian Tilley
Countries: South Africa
Production: Afravision
Cast: Connie Chiume, Ian Roberts, Fana Mokoena, Jerry Mofokeng, Vusi Kunene, Lillian Dube, Marcel Van Heerden, Owen Sejake, Filimone Meigos, Somizi Mhlongo, Connie Mfuku, Dolly Rathebe

Overview:

This controversial political thriller, which provoked mass demonstrations and nine deaths in South Africa when it was first shown, gives dramatic form to the African National Congress's basic program of reconcilliation within a non-racialist, democratic society. A train massacre by an Inkatha militant causes the sole witness to the crime to flee the Soweto townships to take refuge in Johannesburg; but the violence follows him when his ANC comrades try to buy guns for a retaliatory raid against Inkatha supporters.