Dilemma
Released: October 4, 1962Runtime: 89 minLanguage: DA
The story begins when Toby (Ivan Jackson), a young English businessman, arrives in South Africa to take charge of a publishing firm. He knows little about apartheid and so at first sees no contradiction in developing a relationship with an elite, upper-class white woman and with a woman dedicated to fighting apartheid. But as Toby makes friends with one of the black South Africans (Zaku Mokae), and as he registers both the subtle and more obvious, deep-seated racial prejudices of the minority white population, some of the truth of the oppression here begins to dawn. That is brought to a head when tragedy strikes.
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Peter Halliday
as Harry Barnes
Ivan Jackson
as Toby Hood
Ingrid Hafner
as Jean Barnes
Evelyn Frank
as Anna Louw
Marijke Mann
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Patricia Burke
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Zakes Mokae
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Joan Heath
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Gideon Nxomalo
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Patrick Jordan
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Cocky Tlhotlhalemaje
as Amon Mofokeng
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