-
User
Score
Overview
We follow a group of young South Africans as they grow up through the country’s dramatic political changes
- Number of Movies: 4
- Revenue: -
Featured Cast
We don't have any cast added to this movie. You can help by adding some!
Featured Crew
In 1992 20 seven-years-olds are interviewed during a time of violence in South Africa and great change. What do they think of their life and relationships with family and friends? Look back into the past to see a country and people about to change.
In 1992 20 seven-years-olds are interviewed during a time of violence in South Africa and great change. Seven years later we visit the same childen. Now teenagers, they share their thoughts on love, money, violence, race, relationships, and God.
Documentaries that revisit a group of children every seven years is brought to post-apartheid South Africa. Here, filmmaker Angus Gibson interviews 11 young people of various races and backgrounds as they turn 21. The result is an insightful look at how they've changed and the issues they face such as crime, race relations, education and the AIDS epidemic which has killed three of the original 14 children.
Documentary in the traditions of Michael Apted's 7 Up, following the lives of a group of children in South Africa and offering an insight into life in a country that has gone through momentous change. In 1992, when they turned seven, Nelson Mandela had only been out of prison for two years. By the time they were 14, he had become their president and the regime of apartheid had been consigned to history. Chosen from separate communities, the six characters have had starkly differing life experiences.