Disgrace
Disgrace is a 2008 Australian film, based on J. M. Coetzee's 1999 novel of the same name. It was adapted for the screen by Anna Maria Monticelli and directed by her husband Steve Jacobs. Starring American actor John Malkovich and South African newcomer Jessica Haines, it tells the story of a South African university professor in the post-apartheid era who moves to his daughter's Eastern Cape farm when his affair with a student costs him his position. The film received generally positive reviews.
Plot
David Lurie (John Malkovich) is an ageing white professor teaching Romantic literature at an unnamed university in Cape Town shortly after the end of apartheid. David has an affair with one of his students, Melanie Isaacs (Antoinette Engel). University officials learn of the incident and bring David before a disciplinary board. David's colleagues offer him a quiet exit to save face, but he brashly affirms his guilt and refuses to admit wrongdoing, forcing the board to punish him more harshly.
More details
author | Anna Maria Monticelli J. M. Coetzee |
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contentLocation | Cape Town George Makhanda |
director | Steve Jacobs |
editor | Alexandre de Franceschi |
events | apartheid coming to terms with the past role |
genre | drama |
keywords | age attack eastern cape end how to romantic literature south africa teach wrongdoing |
musicBy | Antony Partos |
producer | Anna Maria Monticelli Emile Sherman Steve Jacobs |
theme | rape |