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Set in South Africa's rural Great-Karoo region in the 1950s, this genre-pushing epic chronicles the exploits of the outlaw John...
Set in South Africa's rural Great-Karoo region in the 1950s, this genre-pushing epic chronicles the exploits of the outlaw John Kepe.
"Qubeka looks back to the early days of the repressive apartheid regime and reimagines the capture of John Kepe, the “Samson of the Boschberg Mountains.” For decades, Kepe stole livestock and other goods from white colonist farmers and shared his spoils with the impoverished Indigenous population. His acts — and that he evaded capture for more than 12 years — earned him the title of folk hero to some, and notorious bandit to others." (Toronto International Film Festival)
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83 %12 reviewsRotten Tomatoes® rating
90 %11 reviewsAudience score rating
"While the project of infusing a local legend with grandly cinematic, mythic status is a worthy one, the film can't quite get out of its own way, and the result is incoherently at odds with itself..."
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Variety
Variety"Qubeka's largely wordless, diffuse, time-scrambled narrative feels willfully confusing at first, but it rewards patient viewers with its sensory riches and hypnotic rhythms."
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Hollywood Reporter
Hollywood ReporterSew the Winter to My Skin | Details
- Runtime
- 118
- Genre
- Action, Adventure
- Country of origin
- Germany, South Africa
