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By Joanne Hilty Special to the Rappahannock News
“Tsotsi,” a deeply sad and touching South African film, was awarded the foreign language prize by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Tsotsi is a teenage gang leader who survives by his wits. Although he’s smarter than his hoodlum pals, he won’t reveal his name to them, going by simply “Tsotsi” which in ghetto lingo means thug. RAAC brings this earnest drama of moral redemption to The Theatre on Gay Street, Washington, VA, Friday, August 4, 8:00 p.m.
Based on a long unpublished 1961 novel by dramatist Athol Fugard, a key voice of protest in the apartheid era, director/adapter Gavin Hood’s film stars young Presley
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