Maids and madams [electronic resource] / directed by Mira Hamermesh.

New York, NY : Filmakers Library, 1996.

English

This edition in English.

1 online resource (54 min.).

Mira Hamermesh's powerful film, shot in South Africa, eloquently examines the tragedy of Apartheid through the complex relationship between black household worker and white employer. This domestic situation is a microcosm of the racial issues dividing the country. Over a million black women live in a state of domestic bondage, underpaid, working long hours and at the mercy of draconian laws which separate them from their own families.As psychologist Ethel Wallt says at the end of the film: "The white people in this country are imprisoned by their own fear".

Originally released as DVD.
Title from resource description page (viewed May 24, 2011).

For College; Adult audiences.

National Educational Film Festival, First Place, 1986
San Francisco Festival, Black Cinema Series, 1986

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