Shaka Zulu [VHS]

Shaka Zulu [VHS]
by William C. Faure

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Actor: Christopher Lee, Edward Fox, Fiona Fullerton, Robert Powell, Trevor Howard
Director: William C. Faure
Writer: Joshua Sinclair
Edition: VHS Tape
Format: Color, NTSC
Running Time: 300 minutes
Release Date: 1997-06-20
Audience Rating: Unrated
Publisher: Vidmark / Trimark
Studio: Vidmark / Trimark

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Movie Review: "Shaka Zulu" Is A Must-See
Summary: 5 Stars

Henry Cele plays the South African Zulu King, "Shaka Zulu." Shaka - meaning in Zulu, "the disease of the beetle," was rejected by his Father, Prince of a small Zulu village, and his Mother, Nandie, put through humiliating public displays of disdain by Shaka's Father. That rejection made Shaka into a young man who would be King with a hardened heart. Though he unified all Zulu people, he became a tyrannical leader who ruled with absolute power and authority. This is a true story of a Warrior King of South Africa who trusted very few people and felt that he could not love because of the pain his Father had inflicted upon his Mother, his Grandmother who died fleeing his Father's death sentence and himself. Shaka's curious nature about the Europeans is very interesting as he learns how to write and interpret the Europeans intentions after their arrival on the Cape of South Africa. This film is necessary viewing for anyone interested in Africa. Henry Cele's performance is beyond excellent. Cele was a star soccer player for South Africa in the 1970s.

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South African director William C. Faure (who died in 1994) originally created Shaka Zulu as a 1983 miniseries broadcast in the U.K. Later released for theaters, this is the best-known biography of, and certainly one of the longest narratives about, the legendary Zulu warrior-king, Shaka. The story follows Shaka's life in detail from his illegitimate birth around 1787 to a commoner, Nandi, through his tormented childhood at the Zulu court. Virtually disowned by his father Senzangakhona, the scrawny and introverted Shaka grows into a tall, commanding presence played by Henry Cele (The Ghost and the Darkness and The Light in the Jungle). Cele's subtle but powerful performance is fundamental to the impact of this epic--which, though slow here and there, commands our attention and humanizes the legend of Shaka appealingly. After proving himself a worthy warrior and rising in the ranks of a necessarily more militant society, Shaka lends his influential support to King Dingiswayo who unifies the Zulu Nation under the domination of his Mthethwa tribe. At Dingiswayo's death, Shaka accedes to the Zulu throne from which he expands the Zulu empire through successive military successes over all of Natal (today, KwaZulu-Natal). Faure's story is distinct from other pre-apartheid accounts of Shaka's life in its positive retelling of the Zulu Nation's rise to dominance in western South Africa and in its admixture of military and personal history. In this account, Shaka is not merely the intangible father of a nation but a common man whose life both challenged and taught him to lead. --Erik Macki

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