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Disgrace, is among the most critically celebrated novels of the last several decades and is now a new film adaption set in post-apartheid South Africa and starring John Malkovich. Plus Clint Eastwood's new film Invictus about Nelson Mandela and the rugby match that help end the apartheid era gets a release date.

Scene from forthcoming film Disgrace directed by Steve Jacobs

Disgrace, is among the most critically celebrated novels of the last several decades. Written by South African writer, JM Coetzee who won the Nobel Prize winner for Literature in 2003 (not to mention the Booker Prize twice), the film is an adaption of the novel is set in post-apartheid South Africa which stars John Malkovich as David Lurie, a 52-year-old professor of Romantic Literature who takes a beautiful young mixed-race student under his wing and into his bed.

The author’s final novel to be written and set in South Africa before he emigrated to Australia in 2003, and was a controversial one. The affair erupts into a scandal that forces David to abandon his lifelong profession and leave the city for the remote farm where his free-spirit daughter, Lucy, lives a seemingly uncomplicated rustic life until they fall prey to a particularly brutal attack by three black men - the very fabric of their lives unravels and they find the definitions of victim and victimizer, of oppressed and oppressor, have forever changed.

Disgrace's film trailer

Disgrace, which has just been released in New York and set for wider international release later this year – follows in the footsteps of the summer’s sleeper sci-fi hit District 9, set in downtown Johannesburg. White Wedding, a South Africa film - a feel-good story about love, commitment, and friendship that united the country (at least at the box-office) this summer.

Morgan Freeman on the set of the forthcoming Clint Eastwood film Invictus - set for release later this year.

These films may be only the start of a burgeoning film industry as two blockbuster South African films are set to be released. Clint Eastwood's Invictus (invicible in Latin), which focuses on Nelson Mandela and the world-title rugby match that helped end the apartheid era (Warner has given the film a December 14th release date) starring Morgan Freeman and Matt Damon, and The Bang Bang Club, which tells the story of the photographers who documented the country's turbulent clashes. The film is scheduled for an early 2010 release.

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