Tag: Shawn Slovo

Captain Corelli’s Mandolin Script

Script by:Louis de Bernières (Novel), Shawn Slovo (Screenplay)
Directed by:John Madden
Year:2001
IMDb:tt0238112

Plot:When a Greek fisherman leaves to fight with the Greek army during WWII, his fiancee falls in love with the local Italian commander. The film is based on a novel about an Italian soldier's experiences during the Italian occupation of the Greek island of Cephalonia (Kefalonia), but Hollywood made it into a pure love story by removing much of the "unpleasant" stuff.
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Catch A Fire Script

Script by:Shawn Slovo (Screenplay)
Directed by:Phillip Noyce
Year:2006
IMDb:tt0437232

Plot:The true story of anti-apartheid activists in South Africa, and particularly the life of Patrick Chamusso, a timid foreman at Secunda CTL, the largest synthetic fuel plant in the world. Patrick is wrongly accused, imprisoned and tortured for an attempt to bomb the plant, with the injustice transforming the apolitical worker into a radicalised insurgent, who then carries out his own successful sabotage mission.
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