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Een film van Mark Dornford-May.
Verhaal en muziek naar Bizet's Carmen.

Cast:
Lungelwa Blou
Andile Tshoni
Pauline Malefane
Zorro Sidloyi

Gesproken en gezongen in Xhosa, een van de elf officiele talen van Zuid-Afrika.

De film is gebseerdop Bizrt's opera Carmen, maar verplaatst het verhaal naar het Zuid-Afrikaanse township Khayelitsha.

Brilliantly acted and sung by the internationally acclaimed South African theater company Dimpho Di Kopane (DDK), U-Carmen is a stunning adaptation of perhaps the world's best-loved opera, Carmen.  Re-imagined in the modern world of South African pool halls, bars, courtyards and barracks U-Carmen tells the story of a cigarette factory-worker, Carmen (Pauline Malefane), and her doomed love affair with a police sergeant.  As the two grow more emotionally connected, their relationship escalates violently, culminating in a tragic conclusion of revenge and madness.

Sung in Xhosa.
Subtitles: Dutch and French.