Tsotsi
MovieTitle | Tsotsi |
User score | 7 |
Release date | Dec 23, 2005 |
Genre | Crime, Drama |
Director | Gavin Hood |
Production country | South Africa, United Kingdom |
Production companies | Movieworld Productions, UK Film & TV Production Company, National Film & Video Foundation of South Africa, Industrial Development Corporation of South Africa |
Budget | $3,000,000 |
Revenue | $9,879,971 |
Run time | 94 min. |
The South African multi-award winning film about a young South African boy from the ghetto named Tsotsi, meaning Gangster. Tsotsi, who left home as a child to get away from helpless parents, finds a baby in the back seat of a car that he has just stolen. He decides that it his responsibility to take care of the baby and in the process learns that maybe the gangster life isn’t the best way.