Overview - Tsotsi

Date of release

Genres

  • Crime
  • Drama

Runtime: 94 minutes

Homepage: Tsotsi

Budget

$3,000,000.00

Revenue

$9,891,303.00

Spoken Languages

  • Afrikaans
  • English
  • isiZulu

Production companies

  • Name: Movieworld Productions

    Production country

  • Name: UK Film & TV Production Company

    Production country

  • Name: National Film & Video Foundation of South Africa

    Production country

  • Name: Industrial Development Corporation of South Africa

    Production country South Africa

Overview

A young South African boy from the Johannesburg ghetto named Tsotsi, meaning Gangster, leaves home as a child to get away from his helpless parents. Now a teenage thug, Tsotsi finds a baby in the back seat of a car he's just stolen. He decides that it is his responsibility to care for the infant and in the process learns that maybe the criminal life isn’t the best way.

Cast

  • Name: Presley Chweneyagae

    Character: Tsotsi

    Popularity: 0.9187

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  • Name: Jerry Mofokeng

    Character: Morris

    Popularity: 0.2577

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  • Name: Terry Pheto

    Character: Miriam

    Popularity: 0.3114

  • Name: Zenzo Ngqobe

    Character: Butcher

    Popularity: 0.2827

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  • Name: Zola

    Character: Fela

    Popularity: 0.1731

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  • Name: Rapulana Seiphemo

    Character: John Dube

    Popularity: 0.394

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  • Name: Nambitha Mpumlwana

    Character: Pumla Dube

    Popularity: 0.2498

  • Name: Percy Matsemela

    Character: Sergeant Zuma

    Popularity: 0.29