The Burning(1968)

🎬32 min
📅1968-07-01
🎭Drama
7.0/10

Overview

The Burning is Stephen Frears’ first film, a chilling exploration of racial tensions in Apartheid-era South Africa. On a sweltering summer’ day, a wealthy white matriarch insists on taking her household on a planned trip to the country, in spite of their urgent warnings that an uprising is underway.

Production

Memorial Enterprises, BFI

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Cast

Gwen Ffrangcon Davies
as Gran
Isobel Muller
as Cook
Maxine Day
as Nurse
Cosmo Pieterse
as Chauffeur
Mark Baillie
as Child
Walter Glennie
as