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Released
1988 · FILM

A World Apart

South Africa, 1963. A mother's love. A family's courage.

Directed by
Written by
Runtime
113 min
Drama

Synopsis

A White enclave in Johannesburg, South Africa, in the 1960s. Molly Roth, 13 years old, is the daughter of leftist parents, and she must piece together what's happening around her when her father disappears one night, barely evading arrest, and, not long after, her mother is detained by the authorities. Some of Molly's White friends turn against her, and her family's friendships with Blacks take on new meaning. Relationships are fragile in the world of apartheid. How will she manage?

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 18

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 Nicolas GasterShot by Peter BiziouScored by Hans ZimmerDesigned by Brian Morris

Box Office

1988 · Box office

Grossed $2.3M worldwide

Worldwide gross

$2.3M

Worldwide gross$2.3M

Also known as

  • Zwei Weltende
  • Un mundo apartees
  • Un monde à partfr
  • Un mondo a parteit

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