Mary Twala

Mary Twala

Born: September 14, 1939
Died: July 4, 2020
in Soweto, South Africa

Movies for Mary Twala...

You're My Favourite Place
Title: You're My Favourite Place
Released: July 29, 2022
Type: Movie
Nelisa Vena’s life has never been the same since the death of her sister Anathi. On the last day of their high school careers, she and three friends from a township in East London, South Africa, embark on a life-defining road trip by stealing a taxi and heading to the remote landmark of Hole in the Wall, where Xhosa legend has it you can talk to the dead.
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This Is Not a Burial, It’s a Resurrection
Title: This Is Not a Burial, It’s a Resurrection
Character: Mantoa
Released: June 17, 2020
Type: Movie
Amongst the mountains of Lesotho, an 80-year-old widow winds up her affairs and makes arrangements for her burial. But when her village is threatened with resettlement due to the construction of a reservoir, she finds a new will to live and ignites a spirit of resistance within her community.
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Frank and Fearless
Title: Frank and Fearless
Character: Gogo
Released: November 23, 2018
Type: Movie
In an attempt to stop rhino poaching, railway chef Sonny Frank and a ten year old boy called Fearless kidnap the ambassador of a South-East Asian country.
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The Dark Tower
Title: The Dark Tower
Character: Bell Lady
Released: August 3, 2017
Type: Movie
A boy haunted by visions of a parallel world aids its disillusioned guardian in preventing the destruction of the nexus of universes known as the Dark Tower.
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Wonderboy For President
Title: Wonderboy For President
Character: Vicky Sibanyoni
Released: July 29, 2016
Type: Movie
"Wonder Boy for President," tells a story of a charismatic young man from the Eastern Cape who is coerced into running for president by two corrupt characters. It is a political satire that delves into political dynamics and challenges that arise.
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Hector and the Search for Happiness
Title: Hector and the Search for Happiness
Character: Grim Granny
Released: August 14, 2014
Type: Movie
Hector is a quirky psychiatrist who has become increasingly tired of his humdrum life. As he tells his girlfriend, Clara, he feels like a fraud: he hasn’t really tasted life, and yet he’s offering advice to patients who are just not getting any happier. So Hector decides to break out of his deluded and routine driven life. Armed with buckets of courage and child-like curiosity, he embarks on a global quest in hopes of uncovering the elusive secret formula for true happiness. And so begins a larger than life adventure with riotously funny results.
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Leading Lady
Title: Leading Lady
Character: Sarah Novuka
Released: June 7, 2014
Type: Movie
An idealistic British drama school teacher, Jodi Rutherford, persuades a cynical South African farmer to prepare her for a role in a major film as an Afrikaans war heroine. In return Jodi undertakes to direct the annual concert on the Willemse farm. Jodi's interaction with the quirky small town citizens and the stubborn Kobus, teaches her that: "there is more to life than lights... camera... and action!"
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Title: Hoe Duur Was De Suiker
Released: February 8, 2014
Type: TV
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The Imposter
Title: The Imposter
Character: Granny
Released: July 13, 2012
Type: Movie
In 1994 a 13-year-old boy disappeared without a trace from his home in San Antonio, Texas. Three-and-a-half years later he is found alive thousands of miles away in a village in southern Spain with a horrifying story of kidnap and torture. His family is overjoyed to bring him home. But all is not quite as it seems.
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Lucky
Title: Lucky
Character: Dudu
Released: September 11, 2011
Type: Movie
A 10-year-old South African orphan leaves his Zulu village to make his own life in the city... only to find no one will help him, except a formidable Indian woman.
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Title: Hopeville
Released: November 25, 2009
Type: TV
In a dusty small South African town, a man in search of forgiveness tries to rebuild a relationship with the son he abandoned when he was a child, while renovating a run-down outdoor swimming pool. A feel-good series with biting humor that reflects both the ills of South African society and its resilience.
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Ghost Son
Title: Ghost Son
Character: Leleti
Released: April 5, 2007
Type: Movie
A widowed newlywed stays on her deceased husband's South African farm, then bears a child who seems to be possessed by the dead man.
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Title: Das Traumhotel
Character: Noemi
Released: April 16, 2004
Type: TV
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Beat the Drum
Title: Beat the Drum
Character: Ntombi
Released: October 10, 2003
Type: Movie
Young Musa is orphaned after a mysterious illness strikes his village in KwaZulu Natal. To help his grandmother, Musa sets out for Johannesburg with his father's last gift, a tribal drum, in search of work and his uncle. The journey confronts him with the stark realities of urban life, but his indomitable spirit never wavers; he returns with a truth and understanding his elders have failed to grasp.
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Malunde
Title: Malunde
Character: Grandmother Khumalo
Released: September 12, 2001
Type: Movie
Post-apartheid South Africa is the setting for this drama about a mismatched twosome who end up together on a life-altering journey to Cape Town. Polar opposites Kobus (Ian Roberts), a white ex-soldier who struggles with demons from his past, and Wonderboy (Kagiso Mtetwa), a young black street kid who clings to memories of his family, come together to take on the society that has cast them aside and eventually build a friendship for the ages.
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Time
Title: Time
Character: Grandmother
Released: January 1, 1995
Type: Movie
Beginning in South Africa under the apartheid regime, the film follows a young girl who flees the country after a violent confrontation with a local white landowner in which her father is killed. She settles in Abidjan, where, ten years later, she has become a university student. As part of her studies, she visits the Taureg tribe on the edge of the Sahara before at last returning to post-Apartheid South Africa.
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Sarafina!
Title: Sarafina!
Character: Sarafina's Grandmother
Released: September 18, 1992
Type: Movie
The plot centers on students involved in the Soweto Riots, in opposition to the implementation of Afrikaans as the language of instruction in schools. The stage version presents a school uprising similar to the Soweto uprising on June 16, 1976. A narrator introduces several characters among them the school girl activist Sarafina. Things get out of control when a policeman shoots several pupils in a classroom. Nevertheless, the musical ends with a cheerful farewell show of pupils leaving school, which takes most of act two. In the movie version Sarafina feels shame at her mother's (played by Miriam Makeba in the film) acceptance of her role as domestic servant in a white household in apartheid South Africa, and inspires her peers to rise up in protest, especially after her inspirational teacher, Mary Masombuka (played by Whoopi Goldberg in the film version) is imprisoned.
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Taxi to Soweto
Title: Taxi to Soweto
Character: Fedora
Released: October 31, 1991
Type: Movie
A Gentle story with a moral of forgive and forget at the kernel of its’ comedy exterior ~ but also one that accurately foretold the changes that were to sweep across South Africa in 1994, as an uptight suburban Johannesburg housewife (Elize Cawood, with an equally uptight husband played by Marius Weyers) accepts a lift from a Sowetan taxi driver (Patrick Shai) and gets taken into another world entirely
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Black Cat
Title: Black Cat
Character: Warehouse Worker
Released: November 27, 1975
Type: Movie
South African Movie