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Quick Info

Rating

6.9/10

Release2005

Runtime1h 34m

StatusReleased

Budget$3,000,000

Revenue$9,891,303

Production

Movieworld Productions

UK Film & TV Production Company

National Film & Video Foundation of South Africa

Industrial Development Corporation of South Africa

Movie

Tsotsi

2005

1h 34m

6.9

Crime

Drama

Synopsis

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.

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