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📊 Film Specifications

Director Gavin Hood

Writer Athol Fugard (Novel), Gavin Hood (Writer)

Release Date December 23, 2005

Runtime 94 min (1h 34m)

Country South Africa, United Kingdom

Language TN

Budget $3,000,000

Box Office $9,891,303

Studios Movieworld Productions • UK Film & TV Production Company • National Film & Video Foundation of South Africa

Tsotsi (2005)

Name: Tsotsi
Genre: Crime, Drama
Released: 2005-12-23
Rating: 3.5

Directed by Gavin Hood

• Written by Athol Fugard , Gavin Hood

"In this world... Redemption comes just once."

⭐ 3.5 / 5 (372 votes) ⏱️ 94 min 🎬 Crime, Drama

Ratings Breakdown:

372 ratings

0.5 Stars 5.0 Stars

Synopsis

A young South African boy from the Johannesburg ghetto named Tsotsi, meaning Gangster, leaves home as a child to get away from his helpless parents. Now a teenage thug, Tsotsi finds a baby in the back seat of a car he's just stolen. He decides that it is his responsibility to care for the infant and in the process learns that maybe the criminal life isn’t the best way.