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Released
1989 · FILM

A Dry White Season

Directed by
Runtime
107 min
DramaThriller
Streaming on
  • Prime Video

Synopsis

In the 1976 Soweto uprising, a white school teacher's life and values are challenged when he begins to question the death of a young Black boy who died while in police custody.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 21

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Glenn CunninghamShot by Pierre William GlennScored by Dave GrusinDesigned by John Fenner

Box Office

1989 · Box office

Grossed $3.8M worldwide

Worldwide gross

$3.8M

Worldwide gross$3.8M

Opening weekend: $203K 5% of its US run. It had legs — it kept earning long after opening weekend.

Peak 17 theaters

Also known as

  • Weiße Zeit der Dürrede
  • Una árida estación blancaes
  • Une saison blanche et sèchefr
  • Un'arida stagione biancait

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