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2 unusual facts about Chris Menges


Chris Menges

His second film as director CrissCross with Goldie Hawn received critical acclaim but was a box-office flop.

Ruth First

The film A World Apart (1988), which has a screenplay by her daughter Shawn Slovo and was directed by Chris Menges, is a biographical story about a young white girl living in South Africa with anti-apartheid activist parents, although the family is called Roth in the film.



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