Winner of this year's Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, the South African film Tsotsi will be shown on the Chinese mainland starting June 28.

 

The 94-minute film is a harsh but ultimately redemptive tale of a young gang leader who lives in a shantytown on the edge of Johannesburg. The film was also a winner at this year's Los Angeles American Film Institute, Toronto, Edinburgh and Salonika film festivals.

 

The China Film Group Corp. said the film was approved by the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television. "The film is praised by censors and there is no need to make any amendment to it," said a spokesman for the company.

 

The spokesman told the Shenzhen Daily that Tsotsi was the only 2005 Academy Award winning film allowed to enter the Chinese mainland market. Crash and Brokeback Mountain didn't make it past the censors.

 

 

(Shenzhen Daily May 25, 2006)