Skin

2008 PG-13 1h 47m 6.9

Based on the true story of a black girl who was born to two white Afrikaner parents in South Africa during the apartheid era.

The true story of Sandra Laing (Okonedo), a black child born in the 1950s to white Afrikaners, unaware of their black ancestry. Her parents are rural shopkeepers serving the local black community, who lovingly bring her up as their 'white' little girl. But at the age of ten, Sandra is driven out of white society. The film follows her thirty-year journey from rejection to acceptance, betrayal to reconciliation, as she struggles to define her place in a changing world.

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Info about Skin

Studio(s): Elysian Films, Industrial Development Corporation of South Africa

Originally Released: United States on Oct 30, 2009

Genres: Biography, Drama