An Act of Defiance
Apartheid is rampant in South Africa, 1963. When ten men are arrested on a farm in Rivonia for conspiring to commit sabo
Description:Georges has Down syndrome, living at a mental-institution, Harry is a busy businessman, giving lectures for young aspiring salesmen. He is successful in his business life, but his social life is a disaster since his wife left him and took their two children with her. This weekend his children came by train to meet him, but Harry, working as always, forgot to pick them up. Neither his wife or his children want to see him again and he is driving around on the country roads, anguished and angry. He almost runs over Georges, on the run from the institution since everybody else went home with their parents except him, whose mother is dead. Harry tries to get rid of Georges but he won't leave his new friend. Eventually a special friendship forms between the two of them, a friendship which makes Harry a different person.
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Genre:Drama ,
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Actor:Daniel Auteuil, Pascal Duquenne, Miou-Miou, Henri Garcin, Isabelle Sadoyan, Fabienne Loriaux, Juliette Van Dormael, Sabrina Leurquin, Dieudonné Kabongo, Michele Maes, Alice van Dormael, Marie-Pierre Meinzel, Laszlo Harmati, Dominique Lecat, Roland De Pauw, Jo De Backer, Lotfi Yahya Jedidi, André Simon, Monique Florin, Jean Bollery, Jean-Henri Compère, Dominic Gould, Josse De Pauw, Alexandre von Sivers, Christian Hecq, Saleem Ebrahim, Rémy Julienne, Didier De Neck, Pierre Godeau, Marie Godeau, Éric De Staercke, Olivier Gourmet, Hélène Roussel, Tam Vo, Didier Ferney, Marc Schreiber, Yves Degen, Georges Siatidis, Raymond Lescot, Bernard Eylenbosch, Gérard Hernandez, Patricia Houyoux, Jacqueline Ghaye, Freddy Bournane, Christopher Granier-Deferre,
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Release:1996-05-22
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