| | | Miramax Award Winner.
Features: DVD, Widescreen, Aspect Ratio 2.35:1, Dolby Digital (5.1); Dolby Surround Sound, Featurette, Deleted Scenes, Commentary, Alternate Ending, English, Spanish Subtitled
Captivating audiences worldwide, this compelling story of crime and redemption has earned countless awards around the globe. On the edges of Johannesburg, Tsotsi's life has no meaning beyond survival. One night, in desperation, Tsotsi steals a woman's car. But as he is driving off, he makes a shocking discovery in the backseat. In one moment his life takes a sharp turn and leads him down an unexpected path to redemption...giving him hope for a future he never could have imagined. Tsotsi is an extraordinary portrait of the choices that are made in life and how compassion can endure in the human heart. From Miramax Films, the studio that brings you the best in world cinema (City Of God, Amelie, The Chorus).
"...powerful South African drama...magnificent..." J.R. Jones, Chicago Reader
"Powerful crime drama..." Ken Fox, TV Guide
"It grabs you from a symbolic opening scene...and never lets go." Ruthe Stein, San Francisco Chronicle
Editor's Note
IN THEATERS FEBRUARY 24, 2006"Tsotsi" is the Soweto (South African) equivalent of "gangsta." The titular antihero of this film is a Johannesberg gang-banger who unwittingly kidnaps a baby during an attempted car theft. The baby offers him a new perspective on his violent, sordid life, and changes begin to unfold.
| Features | Alternate Endings With Optional Commentary By Screenwriter And Director Gavin Hood | | Deleted Scenes With Optional Commentary By Gavin Hood | | The Making Of Tsotsi Featurette | | Feature Commentary With Gavin Hood | | Director's Short Film The Storekeeper | | Widescreen Presentation | | Audio: English Dolby Digital (5.1); Dolby Surround Sound | | Subtitles: English, Spanish |
| Technical Info
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Release Information
| | Studio: Buena Vista |
| Release Date: 12/26/2009 |
| Running Time: 94 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 2006 | | Catalog ID: 5066703 | | UPC: 00786936705362 | | Number of Discs: 1 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: Zulu | | Available Audio Tracks: English, Zulu | | Available Subtitles: English | | Video: Color |
Aspect Ratio | | Widescreen 2.35:1 |
| Cast & Crew
| Awards |
British Academy Awards (2006) | | | Peter Fudakowski, Nominee, Carl Foreman Award for the Most Promising Newcomer | | | Peter Fudakowski, Gavin Hood, Nominee, Best Film not in the English Language | |
Oscar (2006) |  | Tsotsi, Winner, Best Foreign Language Film of the Year | |
Golden Globe (2006) | | | Tsotsi, Nominee, Best Foreign Language Film |
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4 stars out of 5 -- "[P]owerful....It's quite an achievement by director Gavin Hood....Authentic..." 04/01/2006 p.133Sight and Sound
"Hood elicits a great performance from Presley Chweneyagae as the delinquent hero slowly beginning to question his life of casual violence....Individual scenes are staged with tremendous verve." 04/01/2006 p.82 USA Today
"TSOTSI is a compelling and uplifting tale of humanity and dignity in the starkest of environments." 02/24/2006 p.4E Entertainment Weekly
"[The] moody, minimalist film conveys a South African street thug's moral wake-up call without ham-fisted speeches..." 07/14/2006 p.69 Total Film
4 stars out of 5 -- "[A] sharp focus, epiphany snapshot....The semi-pro Presley Chweneyagae uses every iris-flex and eyebrow nudge..." 08/01/2006 p.105 Ultimate DVD
4 stars out of 5 -- "TSOTSI is a raw and brutal look at the simmering hotbed of violence that inevitably exists in deprived inner city shantytowns." 07/01/2006 p.94 Variety.com 9 of 10
Rapturously received by premiere auds and sparking acquisition interest from mini-major studios at the Edinburgh film fest, intense Blighty-South African co-prod "Tsotsi" has the right stuff to be a breakout hit if distribs market it cannily. The third film by helmer Gavin Hood ("A Reasonable Man"), contempo-set "Tsotsi" tells of a township hoodlum (an ace debut for Presley Chweneyagae), who learns to care for an infant whose mother he shot. Powered by a pounding soundtrack of dance hall Kwaito music, the pic has vital, urban energy similar to the Brazilian crossover "City of God" and but with a tauter, more conventional storyline. - Leslie Felperin
Chicago Sun-Times 10 of 10
What a simple and yet profound story this is. It does not sentimentalize poverty or make Tsotsi more colorful or sympathetic than he should be; if he deserves praise, it is not for becoming a good man but for allowing himself to be distracted from the job of being a bad man...This is the second year in a row (after "Yesterday") that a South African film has been nominated for the foreign film Oscar. There are stories in the beloved country that have cried for a century to be told. - Roger Ebert
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