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Five Fingers for Marseilles

2017

Years after fleeing the apartheid-era violence of his youth, a reformed outlaw returns to his rural South African town to find it under the boot of a new gang, and is drawn back into a fight he thought he had left behind. A striking neo-Western.

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Part of 10 Essential Films from South Africa

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