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Director:
Writer:
Ralph Ziman (writer)
Release Date:
May 2008 (South Africa) more
Tagline:
"If you're going to steal...Steal big, and hope like hell you get away with it!"
Plot:
Young hoodlum's rise from a small-time criminal to a powerful crime entrepreneur during the turbulent years before and after the fall of apartheid. | add synopsis
Awards:
6 wins more
NewsDesk:
(2 articles)
Jerusalema at Palm Springs
(From Twitch. 23 January 2009, 6:39 AM, PST)
The 2008 International Watch List
(From QuietEarth. 21 December 2008, 9:17 PM, PST)
User Comments:
Moving Account of Modern South Africa more (12 total)
Cast
(Credited cast) | Daniel Buckland | ... | Josh Freidlander |
 | Robert Hobbs | ... | Detective Swart |
| Eugene Khumbanyiwa | ... | Drug dealer |
| Motlatsi Mahloko | ... | Young Zakes |
| Jafta Mamabolo | ... | Young Kunene |
| Shelley Meskin | ... | Leah Freidlander |
| Kenneth Nkosi | ... | Sithole |
| Ronnie Nyakale | ... | Zakes Mbolelo |
| Louise Saint-Claire | ... | Anna-Marie van Rensburg |
| Rapulana Seiphemo | ... | Lucky Kunene |
| Jeffrey Zekele | ... | Nazareth |
Additional Details
Also Known As:
Jerusalem Entjha (South Africa: English title) (working title)
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MPAA:
Rated R for violence, language, drug use and some sexual content.
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Runtime:
Germany:120 min (Berlin International Film Festival)
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2.35 : 1 more
Certification:
South Africa:16LV | Australia:MA | USA:R (certificate #45659) | Netherlands:16
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South Africa's 2009 Academy Awards official submission to Foreign-Language Film category. more
Goofs:
Anachronisms: The car license plates in the scenes set in 1994 end with GP (for Gauteng Province). At the time, the plates were yellow, and ended with "T", for Transvaal. more
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A movie that speaks to the core of the human spirit. As much as the movie is South African, anyone who has been faced with hardship will relate. Our dreams, when they shatter and fade painfully silently and the dark talents we discover in desperation for a moment to live the life we once aspired to. Seiphemo, Zekele and the supporting cast are brilliant on a script that pulls no punches, with impeccable direction. The overall execution leaves no vague on what goes wrong and how it becomes celebrated as fruits of crime are reaped and shared by even the most moral in our lives. South African cinema has moved to the next stage in evolution i.e. reflection on some of the darker sides of the new South Africa. A masterpiece.