U-Carmen eKhayelitsha
U-CARMEN is a feature film based on Georges Bizet's 19th-century opera that was filmed on location in a modern South African township setting. The energy, compassion, and heat of township life in all its elements create a constantly visually interesting and dynamic background for the unfolding of the story, which owes part of its huge popularity to the thrilling combination of a violent gangster tale with a passionate, almost supernatural love story. As it unfolds, it explores issues of fame and wealth, the position of a strong and independently minded woman in a very masculine society and, perhaps most importantly, the incomprehensible attraction between abuser and victim. Bizet's opera, based on Prosper Merimée's novel, premiered in Paris on March 3, 1875. Set in a poor area of Seville, the story of the magnetic woman who seduces, loves, and ultimately destroys her lover and herself...
Crew
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Henri Meilhac
Opera
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Ludovic Halévy
Opera
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Giulio Biccari
Director of Photography
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Simon Rice
Sound Mixer
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Prosper Mérimée
Novel
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Mark Dornford-May
Director
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Mark Dornford-May
Writer
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Mark Dornford-May
Producer
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Ross Garland
Executive Producer
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Ross Garland
Producer
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Ronelle Loots
Editor
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Andiswa Kedama
Writer
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Pauline Malefane
Writer
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Craig Smith
Production Design
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