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Missing
Why this pick
A measured, devastating political investigation in which a family member’s search exposes the machinery of state repression, with the same escalating outrage and human-scale urgency.
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MOVIE1989 1h 47m USA
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
A white middle class South African suburbanite with no interest in politics agrees to help his black gardener find his jailed son. His investigation opens his eyes to the horrors committed by the secret police and turns him into a target.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Zakes Mokae
Stanley Makhaya
Susan Sarandon
Melanie Bruwer
Marlon Brando
Ian McKenzie
Leonard Maguire
Bruwer
Susannah Harker
Suzette du Toit
Ronald Pickup
Louw
Rosemary Martin
Mrs Beachley
David de Keyser
Susan's Father