Yolande Zauberman
Gérard de Verbizier
Mary Sills
Pierre Wallon
Yolande Zauberman
Dewald Aukema
Jean-François Naudon
Jean Goudier
Préludes
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1987
France
53 min
Color
In apartheid South Africa, Robert found himself classified “colored” by an administrative tribunal while his wife and children were classified “white”. Decades later Robert is happily remarried to a black woman named Doris, and together they recount the absurdity of the racial laws which tore his family apart. Shot clandestinely in 16mm, Classified People by Yolande Zauberman (M, Would You Have Sex With An Arab?, The Beauty of Gaza) is a lesson in radical documentary filmmaking and a deeply intimate depiction of the ways in which state-sanctioned segregation infiltrates the most private lives of those affected by it.
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