Marigolds in August

Marigolds in August was written by Athol Fugard who in the early 1980s was South Africas most celebrated playwright Fugards intense political opinions were enough for the USSR to object to Marigolds being shown in the 1980 Berlin Festival but the objections were dropped when it was learned that Fugard had already built up a strong fan following in Eastern Europe for various reasons the film was not released in the US until 1984 Winston Ntshona stars as a black South African gardener who travels by foot into the white community looking for a job Upon arriving Ntshona discovers that another black John Kani may have been hired for that job Ntshoa ruins the chances for himself and Kani by accusing the other man of planning a theft Both men are eventually hired by a fellow outcast a white poacher played by Anthol Fugard himself The message would seem to be that if the havenots of the world stick together it matters little how badly theyre treated by the haves