U-Carmen e-Khayelitsha 2005

U-CARMEN is a feature film based on Georges Bizet's 19th-century opera that was filmed on location in a modern South African township setting. The energy, compassion, and heat of township life in all its elements create a constantly visually interesting and dynamic background for the unfolding of the story, which owes part of its huge popularity to the thrilling combination of a violent gangster tale with a passionate, almost supernatural love story. As it unfolds, it explores issues of fame and wealth, the position of a strong and independently minded woman in a very masculine society and, perhaps most importantly, the incomprehensible attraction between abuser and victim. Bizet's opera, based on Prosper Merimée's novel, premiered in Paris on March 3, 1875. Set in a poor area of Seville, the story of the magnetic woman who seduces, loves, and ultimately destroys her lover and herself...

Cast:

Pauline Malefane
Carmen 

Andile Tshoni
Jongikhaya 

Lungelwa Blou
Nomakhaya 

Zweilungile Sidloyi
Lulamile Nkomo 

Andries Mbali
Bra Nkomo 

Zamile Gantana
Captain Gantana 

• Carmen
• Czarna Carmen