Time (Waati) 29 years old

Beginning in South Africa under the apartheid regime, the film follows a young girl who flees the country after a violent confrontation with a local white landowner in which her father is killed. She settles in Abidjan, where, ten years later, she has become a university student. As part of her studies, she visits the Taureg tribe on the edge of the Sahara before at last returning to post-Apartheid South Africa.

Credits

Time Cast

Name Character
Vusi Kunene He was 28, now 58 years old
Mary Twala She was 55, now 85 years old as Grandmother
Martin Le Maitre
Balla Moussa Keïta He was 61, 67 years old when he died as Teacher

Time Crew

Name Department
Souleymane Cissé as Director. He was 54 (now 84) years old Directing
Souleymane Cissé as Writer. He was 54 (now 84) years old Writing
Time (29 years)

  • Release day: Sunday, January 01, 1995
  • Runtime: 140 minutes