A 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.A 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.A 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.
- Awards
- 6 wins & 1 nomination
Jeffrey Sekele
- Nazareth
- (as Jeffrey Zekele)
Shelley Meskin
- Leah Friedlander
- (as Shelly Meskin)
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- TriviaThe budget was so low on the film that old cameras were used as were skateboards in place of dollies.
- GoofsWhen Kunene is on the beach in Durban at the end of the movie, the tracks made by the film crews vehicles are clearly visible.
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I saw this film previewed on CNN and went to see it at the Zurich Film Festival with some American friends of mine. Being South African one could see that this film was simply a labour of love for the beloved country. Ralph Ziman, the self effacing director was on hand to talk about the film after the movie and I asked him how he got all the original footage of the Mandela inauguration etc, which he has cleverly weaved into the movie. His answer was amazing: He shot it himself over the years, which means that Ralph has single handedly created parts of a record of SA history no one else has. At the end of the day the film is broad enough and topical enough to override Tsotsi on many levels, dealing with the integral white black relationship in South Africa (the main black criminal building hijacker in the movie has an affair with a well to do white Jewish girl from the burbs) and how these parts of society interrelate. Last but not least, as it is not stuck in the modality of "Tsotsi only" it manages to look refreshingly at a broad swathe of the themes and reality affecting SA society today. Though Ralph denies it :) (correct me if I am wrong Ralph) Tsotsi has inevitably influenced the making of Jerusalema but on many levels is radically different. In a sense I missed the whimsical sadness of Tsotsi and Jerusalema pans through the skyline and scenes of our Johannesburg far too fast to really do it justice. More of that please. However, its a fast moving film that was enjoyed not just by me but by some Americans I dragged along to it. They really liked it proving that it scope and graphic talks to a worldwide audience. Bravo Ralph. Your country has cause to be very proud of you. You are a true son of South Africa.
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- Also known as
- Jerusalem Entjha
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- Budget
- $2,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $7,294
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $4,958
- Jun 13, 2010
- Gross worldwide
- $421,593
- Runtime1 hour 59 minutes
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- Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1
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By what name was Gangster's Paradise: Jerusalema (2008) officially released in Canada in English?
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