More Than Just a Game Page #4

Synopsis: Told through the stories of five former prisoners, this is the story of political activists sent to the notorious Robben Island prison in the 1960s by the apartheid regime, who rise above their incarceration by creating a football league and finding an outlet for their passion and commitment to discipline through the Beautiful Game.
Genre: Drama, Sport
Director(s): Junaid Ahmed
  1 nomination.
 
IMDB:
5.9
Year:
2007
90 min
37 Views


Geclined.

-We reques he righ o play fooball...

-...fooball on weekends.

Nee.

-We reques...

-...he righ o play fooball...

-...on weekends.

-Nee.

-We reques...

-Nee.

-The righ o play fooball...

-Nee.

...play fooball on weekends.

Uit!

We reques he righs o beer food.

-En?

-And we reques he righ

o play fooball on weekends.

No.

No. Ou. Ge ou.

We reques he righ o play...

Yes, yes, yes he righ o play fooball...

On weekends.

When he hell else would you play fooball?

Go you hink his a damned social club?

Of course on bloody weekends!

Ou.

Ge ou.

Nex.

-Naidoo, is somebody sill waiing ouside?

-No.

l says here one ime soccer ball

o be bough wih...

Wha's his word here, Naidoo?

Funds, sir, o be bough wih funds.

l'm alking o Naidoo.

When l'm alking o you,

hen you can answer.

Bough wih funds donaed

by he following players.

For a bunch of communiss,

you boys are quie flush wih cash, hey?

Tha 20c a monh you pay us

for breaking rocks can add up.

Naidoo, are you being funny?

Go you wan o make jokes?

Hey? Go you wan o...

come hen, make jokes...

Le's see if you're sill so funny once l've

chucked your ass ino soliary confinemen

for hree monhs.

The chaps simply wan a ball.

A proper ki, as soon as he guys

can organise he funds.

Moseneke, if he CO les you play,

and he's no going o le you play...

You boys are going o break -

you will suffer. You are oo weak.

You people are lile

piccanin scarecrows already.

Thank you, sir.

Boss!

lf you coninue o ask me

for his bloody supid hing,

you bloody learn o call me ''Baas.''

-Undersand?

-Yes.

Now ge ou.

Well, we had o show ha our approach was

indeed a very, very serious one.

Once we go going i also

gave rise o wha l would call a unied fron

ha cu across pary poliical lines

and across all age groups.

It was that united front

that the authorities couId not ignore.

And it was a reaIIy very powerfuI

instrument for us to get things going.

Go you hear wha hey are asking, Fourie?

Go you even read hese hings?

These guys are obsessed wih heir soccer.

Like lile kids.

Bu does Capain hink...?

They are dying in he quarry. How long do

you hink hey'll las?

Come on, Fourie,

we are no unreasonable men.

Give hem heir damned soccer.

They're asking so nicely!

We will invie he Red Cross o come

and observe he whole hing.

Afer all hey like soccer in Dwizerland,

don' hey Fourie?

l couldn' say Capain.

Well l know hey like chocolaes.

Do we'll give he geezer from Geneva a

few chocolaes, and a soccer mach.

Bu find a few guys who look a lile

muscular, okay? Healhy.

And speaking of healhy...

...his plan looks a lile ragic,

no so Fourie?

Yes Capain.

Bu can l ask Capain wha...

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