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Beat the Drum (2003) Characters, Setting & Themes Explained
- Release, runtime and language
- 2003 · 114 mins · English
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- Directed by
- David Hickson
- Starring
- Mary Twala, Junior Singo, Adelaide Shabalala
- Budget
- $1.5M
After a mysterious illness leaves his KwaZulu‑Natal village orphaned, young Musa departs his grieving grandmother for Johannesburg, carrying his father’s last gift—a tribal drum—in search of work and his uncle. The harsh city tests him, but his resilient spirit persists, and he returns home with a hard‑won truth his elders have yet to grasp.
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