U-Carmen eKhayelitsha (2005)
2h 2m
Running Time
December 22, 2005Release Date
U-Carmen eKhayelitsha (2005)
2h 2m
Running Time
December 22, 2005Release Date
Plot.
U-CARMEN is a feature film based on Georges Bizet's 19th-century opera that was filmed on location in a modern South African township setting. The energy, compassion, and heat of township life in all its elements create a constantly visually interesting and dynamic background for the unfolding of the story, which owes part of its huge popularity to the thrilling combination of a violent gangster tale with a passionate, almost supernatural love story. As it unfolds, it explores issues of fame and wealth, the position of a strong and independently minded woman in a very masculine society and, perhaps most importantly, the incomprehensible attraction between abuser and victim. Bizet's opera, based on Prosper Merimée's novel, premiered in Paris on March 3, 1875. Set in a poor area of Seville, the story of the magnetic woman who seduces, loves, and ultimately destroys her lover and herself.
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Cast & Crew.
Pauline Malefane
Carmen - cigarette girl
Andile Tshoni
Jongikhaya
Lungelwa Blou
Nomakhaya
Andries Mbali
Bra Nkomo
Zweilungile Sidloyi
Lulamile Nkomo
Zamile Gantana
Captain Gantana
Mark Dornford-May
Director
Ludovic Halévy
Writer
Ruby Mthethwa
Pinki
Andiswa Kedama
Writer
Noluthando Boqwana
Manelisa
Henri Meilhac
Writer
Prosper Mérimée
Writer
Giulio Biccari
Director of Photography
Ross Garland
Producer
Ronelle Loots
Editor
Simon Rice
Sound Mixer
Craig Smith
Production Design
Details.
Release DateDecember 22, 2005
StatusReleased
Running Time2h 2m
Filming LocationsSouth Africa
Genres
Wiki.
U-Carmen eKhayelitsha is a 2005 South African operatic film directed and produced by Mark Dornford-May. The title, "Carmen in Khayelitsha", refers to one of the poorest areas of Cape Town.