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Burning, The (1967)
 

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A white South African sets out with her grandson and coloured cook and chauffeur for her weekly visit to her sister's farm, unaware that a black uprising is taking place. Despite the obvious signs of unrest, she picnics calmly on a hilltop, while down below her terrified grandson watches as the chauffeur is burned in his car by a native lynch mob.

Monthly Film Bulletin, September 1968