Characters & Themes
The Burning (1968) Characters, Setting & Themes Explained
- Release, runtime and language
- 1968 · 32 mins · English
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- Directed by
- Stephen Frears
- Starring
- Gwen Ffrangcon Davies, Mark Baillie, Maxine Day, Cosmo Pieterse, Isobel Muller, Walter Glennie
Stephen Frears’ debut film offers a chilling portrait of racial tensions in apartheid‑era South Africa. On a sweltering summer day, a wealthy white matriarch defies urgent warnings and insists her household travel to the countryside, even as an uprising looms.
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