La Boheme: Breathe Umphefumlo
2015·South Africa·90 min.
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A South African township set version of Puccini’s La Bohème. The striking and brutal realities of the students struggling for food, shelter and medication. Mimi's death from TB - and her illness unnoticed at first even by her closest friends - cannot but send a chilling chord in our modern world.
DirectorMark Dornford-May
ScreenwriterPauline Malefane·Mark Dornford-May·Luigi Illica·Giuseppe Giacosa·Giacomo PucciniShow all
CinematographyMatthys Mocke
CastNoluthando Boqwana·Zamile Gantana·Sifiso Lupuzi·Pauline Malefane·Zebulon Mmusi·Mhlekazi Mosiea·Busisiwe Ngejane·Luvo Rasemeni
Original titleBreathe Umphefumlo