Skin

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Skin

2009

1h 47m

6.4(50 votes)

Drama

Overview

Based on the true story of a black girl who was born to two white Afrikaner parents in South Africa during the apartheid era.

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Production Companies

Industrial Development Corporation of South Africa

The National Film and Video Foundation of South Africa

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Cast & Crew

9 members

Acting

Sophie Okonedo

Sandra Laing

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Alice Krige

Sannie Lang

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Sam Neill

Abraham Laing

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Terri Ann Eckstein

Elsie Laing (aged 19)

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Bongani Masondo

Henry Laing (aged 20)

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Dan Robbertse

Factory Foreman

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Jeremy Crutchley

TV Reporter

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Tony Kgoroge

Petrus Zwane

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Ella Ramangwane

Young Sandra

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