Back of the Moon

This award-winning local film is set in July 1958, when the government was busy with forced removals. Badman, an intellectual and the leader of the most powerful gang in Sophiatown, lives life on his own terms in this crazy, cosmopolitan, half demolished ghetto on the edge of Johannesburg. A gorgeous singer on the brink of an international career is giving her last concert in the local hall before she travels to London. Tomorrow, legions of police will force the local residents out of their homes and they will be trucked to a desolate township, ten miles out of the city. Refusing to face the bleak reality of black South African life, Badman has decided that he will fight to the death for his home. Fate thrusts the singer, whom he has loved from a distance, into his orbit. And on this night that bears this beautiful encounter, Badman’s gang, The Vipers, sensing his vulnerability, turns on them both. In Zulu language with English subtitles.

97 minutes.
No persons under 18 (Language, Sex, Nudity, Violence, Prejudice, Drug abuse).
Drama, South African.

Not currently showing on the local cinema circuit.