The Burning

Year: 1968

Runtime: 32 mins

Language: English

Director: Stephen Frears

Drama

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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