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After having an affair with a student, a Cape Town professor moves to the Eastern Cape, where he gets caught up in a mess of post-apartheid politics.After having an affair with a student, a Cape Town professor moves to the Eastern Cape, where he gets caught up in a mess of post-apartheid politics.After having an affair with a student, a Cape Town professor moves to the Eastern Cape, where he gets caught up in a mess of post-apartheid politics.
- Awards
- 5 wins & 3 nominations
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David Dennis
- Mr. Isaacs
- (as David Denis)
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Did you know
- Trivia'Disgrace' won the Best Narrative Film (The Black Pearl) Award at the Middle East Film Festival 2008.
- GoofsThe notices in the lecture theater "Mid-term test" and "Casanova - your time is over" appear to have been written by the same person. Given the professionalism adopted by the university in its investigation of Mr Laurie it does not seem plausible to suggest that one person (say, a teacher's aide) wrote both notices.
- Quotes
Professor David Lurie: The one who comes to teach learns the keenest of lessons, those who come to learn learn nothing.
- ConnectionsReferences Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939)
- SoundtracksShe Walks in Beauty
Written by Graeme Koehne
Performed by Beth Wightwick and the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra
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Intelligent, disciplined, thought-provoking
I haven't read the award-winning book on which it is based, but Steve Jacob's film 'Disgrace' is a thoughtful and intelligent story about wrongdoing and reconciliation that quite explicitly functions as a microcosm of post-Apartheid South Africa and its relationship with its own past. In it, John Malkovich's disgraced, womanising and cynical ex-University professor comes to understand the value of offering contrition (when reparation is not obviously a feasible outcome) after his daughter is attacked and there is nothing corresponding to justice available for her. Indeed, she lives (in the remote highlands) where the very basis of power (which is ultimately needed to support justice) is undergoing a practical (though ugly) renegotiation, and the attack itself is seen (by her, though not by her father) in this context. The fact that both the professor and his daughter are, in their own ways, prickly and proud characters, makes the story more interesting; and the temptation for melodrama is resisted at every turn (indeed, while the most obviously dramatic scenes are being played out, the bigger event is occurring off-camera). It takes a lot of discipline to make a film this way; but there's a pay off - it feels real throughout, and makes you think by avoiding all the easy clichés.
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- Jun 28, 2011
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- Ганьба
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- Budget
- $10,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $69,705
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $12,615
- Sep 20, 2009
- Gross worldwide
- $2,291,680
- Runtime1 hour 59 minutes
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- Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1
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