Simon Sabela

Simon Sabela

Date of Birth: 10 Mar 1931

Country: South Africa

Biography: For many years he was the only black South African able to work as a film director.

Total Credits at Criticker: 24 (Actor), 5 (Director)

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    Zulu
    Outnumbered British soldiers do battle with Zulu warriors at Rorke's Drift. (imdb)
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    The Gods Must Be Crazy II
    Xixo is back again. This time, his children accidentally stow away on a fast-moving poachers' truck... (imdb)
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    Skeleton Coast
    An elderly American soldier arrives in Angola, where he has organised an audacious mission to spring his son, an imprisoned CIA agent, out of a heavily fortified stronghold. (imdb)
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    Shout at the Devil
    During World War One an English poacher, an American adventurer and the latter's attractive young daughter, set out to destroy a German battle-cruiser which is awaiting repairs in an inlet just off Zanzibar. (imdb)
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    Death Drums Along the River
    A British colonial policeman in Africa investigates a murder in a hospital up river. (imdb)
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    Target of an Assassin
    An ailing African leader is admitted to a hospital. A male nurse at the hospital kidnaps him, but it turns out that things aren't exactly what they seem to be. (imdb)
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    Gold
    Rod Slater is the newly appointed general manager of the Sonderditch gold mine, but he stumbles across an ingenious plot to flood the mine, by drilling into an underground lake, so the unscrupulous owners to make a killing in the international gold market. (imdb)
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    Mapantsula
    Mapantsula tells the story of Panic, a petty gangster who inevitably becomes caught up in the growing anti-apartheid struggle and has to choose between individual gain and a united stand against the system.
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    Shaka Zulu
    Shaka Zulu (1987) - TV Mini-Series
    The true story of the life and rise to power of Shaka, the greatest Zulu leader in history. Starting from his birth, this film takes us through his difficult childhood, his taking by force the leadership of the Zulu nation, and then to his dramatic fall, due mostly to the influences of the British colonialists. (imdb)
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    The Last Samurai
    A successful businessman searches for his Samurai ancestors in a war-torn African nation. (imdb)
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    King of Africa
    A British colonial policeman in Africa, circa 1900, pursues a band of escaped killers across territory so wild, it lies just "one step to hell." (imdb)
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    The Rutanga Tapes
    A U.S. agent (David Dukes) saves a journalist (Susan Anspach) and her son from an East German/Libyan chemical-warfare plot in Africa.
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    Seven Against the Sun
    In February of 1941, South African troops are in action against the Italian forces on the northern frontier of Kenya. An Italian invasion, aimed at pushing the Allied Forces out of Central and East Africa, is imminent. The South African Command realizes it has no forces at its disposal capable of stopping the Italian objective.
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    Diamond Walkers
    Adventure about diamond smugglers in South Africa
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    Inyakanyaka
    Two mates Mshefane and S'dudla work for a company producing comic magazines,they are always at loggerhead with the foreman Ngungunyane.
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    The Lion\
    Suspended from the police force, Marc Borelli travels to South-Africa to find out the truth about his fathers death.
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    Scavengers
    A college professor and his ex-girlfriend find themselves being hunted by the CIA, the KGB and an African drug smuggler. Seems they have inadvertently gotten information that would show how the KGB gave the CIA state secrets in return for a cut of the African drug-smuggling market.
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    The Shadowed Mind
    Stephanie, arrives as a patient at a private clinic for sufferers of sexual dysfunction run by Dr Hildesheimer. Stephanie's fellow patients all have their own issues including inhibition, neurosis, fixation, delusions etc. Stephanie begins a tentative affair with one of the other patients while a killer stalks the institution.
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    Negerküsse
    Negerküsse (1992) - TV Movie
    The problems of a former high ranking official of an African country living in Germany.
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    U\
    Story about a country girl Deliwe (Cynthia Shange) who comes from KwaZulu-Natal to the city of gold, Johannesburg. She enters the world of fashion and wins a beauty queen title. The fairy tale takes a turn for the worse when she is involved in a car accident that scars her for life.
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    Satan\
    Murdock inherits an estate in Africa, on which "Satan's Harvest" (heroin and marijuana) is grown. The thugs growing the drugs want him out of the way, so things get messy.
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    Strangers at Sunrise
    In the Transvaal, in 1900, the British army condemns to death an American mining engineer for aiding and abetting the Boer enemy. The engineer escapes from custody and takes refuge at an isolated Boer farm. When three deserters from the British army arrive on the scene, the engineer takes steps to protect himself and the Boer family.
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    Rogue Lion
    In South Africa a new young ranger is transferred to a troubled game reserve. He struggles to be accepted by, and help, his boss, fending off poachers and intruding natives, and gets involved with a poacher's daughter he knew from university.
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    Tokoloshe
    A young African boy is rescued from a witchdoctor's death curse. He travels to the big city where a blind white man becomes his protector.
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