MOVIES - June 7, 1989
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The American movie “Mississippi Burning” is a box-office smash in Johannesburg, South Africa, attracting both blacks and whites who previously were denied access to such films about racial conflict. The film, which focuses on the killing of three civil rights workers during the racial turbulence of the 1960s, has played to full houses since it opened in late April. The movie “mirrors our times in South Africa,” said the New Nation, a black-oriented weekly.
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