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Tug of War

20240.0 / 1092 min

Drama, Romance

Overview

A coming-of-age political love story set in the final years of British colonial Zanzibar. Denge, a young freedom fighter meets Yasmin, an Indian-Zanzibari woman in the middle of the night as she is on her way to be married. Passion and revolution escalate.

Cast

Gudrun Columbus Mwanyika

Denge

Ikhlas Gafur Vora

Yasmin Fazal

Siti Amina

Mwajuma

Luqman Thani

Pazi

Rasheed Hemed

Mambo

Nick Reding

Inspector Wright

Gabo Zigamba

Koplo Matata

Salum Suleiman

Chande

Abubakr Mrisho

Zanga

Crew

Amil Shivji

Director

Jenna Cato Bass

Writer

Amil Shivji

Producer

Steven Markovitz

Producer

Amil Shivji

Writer

Ramadhani Hamis Kondo

Key Grip

Zenn van Zyl

Director of Photography

Hawa Ally

Costume Designer

Bill Odongo

Unit Production Manager

Cece Mlay

Second Assistant Director

Edwin Kariuki

Production Manager

Lucinda Englehart

Executive Producer

Kifua Compound

Prop Maker

Meshack Otieno

Assistant Camera

Amélie Legrand

Original Music Composer

Mona Mwakalinga

Casting Director

Faudhia Gingi

Makeup & Hair

Rajab Mohamed Mkungwa

Gaffer

Nadia ben Rachid

Editor

Amine Bouhafa

Original Music Composer

Neil Tabatznik

Executive Producer

Cindy K.

Production Manager

Kate Mumbua

Production Manager

Eliudi Mwanyika

Production Designer

Rita Wachera

Assistant Director

Saul Ogada

Electrician

Justine Gitahi

Line Producer

Frédéric Salles

Sound Recordist

Emilia Roux

Production Designer

Matthew Swanepoel

Editor

Lilian Sundqvist

Script Supervisor

Simon Rieber

Writer