Director
Oliver Schmitz
Cast list
Tony Kgoroge ...Sox Moraka
Rapulana Seiphemo...Zama
Percy Matsemela...Fly
Makhaola Ndebele...Joe
Moshidi Motshegwa ...Grace
Emily McArthur...Nicky
Owen Sejake ...Bra Dan
Harold 'Speedy' Matihabo ...Kenneth
George Lamola...Steve
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Credits
Writing credits: Lesego Rampolokeng (story) and Oliver Schmitz
Production Crew:
Producers-Philippe Guez and Christoph Hahnheiser
Music- Martin Todsharow
Cinematography- Michel Amathieu
Film Editing- Oliver Schmitz and Derek Trigg
Synopsis
In Johannesburg, Sox, a young black actor, leaves his white girlfriend and comfortable middle-class existence behind, as he goes back to Soweto to live among township criminals so he can get a part in a TV gangsta show and 'play it for real'.
Reviews
Derek Malcolm, Hijack Stories, The Guardian (newspaper)
Hollywood-pat action film, which is a shame, given that this is South African, Empire Online (online review)
Academic Writing:
Dovey, Lindiwe. “South African Cinema in Exile.” Journal of Postcolonial Writing 41.2 (2005): 189-199.
Fu, Albert, and Martin J. Murray. “Cinema and the edgy city: Johannesburg, carjacking, and the postmetropolis.” African Identities 5.2 (2007): 279-289.
Jacobsohn, Bianca. In the car with Oliver Schmitz’s Hijack stories (2000): The journey of a South African film in translation. Diss. 2008.
Marx, Lesley. “At the end of the rainbow: Jerusalema and the South African gangster film.” Safundi: The Journal of South African and American Studies 11.3 (2010): 261-278.
Rijsdijk, Ian-Malcolm, and Adam Haupt. “Redemption to a kwaito beat: Gavin Hood’s Tsotsi.” Journal of the Musical Arts in Africa 4.1 (2007): 29-46.
Stadler, Jane. “Tsotsis, coconuts and wiggers: Black masculinity and contemporary South African media.” Power, politics and identity in South African media (2008): 343-363.