Yankee Zulu (1993) on Netflix
Rhino Labuschagne and Zulu Mashabela are best friends in apartheid-era South Africa. At Rowena's urging, Rhino fires at a can on Zulu's head. Zulu becomes a car thief in New York.
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Plot summary
Rhino Labuschagne and Zulu Mashabela grow up as best friends in apartheid-era South Africa. The friendship ends when Rhino, pushed by Rowena, fires at a can on Zulu's head. Twenty-five years on, Zulu is a car thief in New York, and TIRD, a neo-Nazi group led by the German Gen. Diehard, arranges his deportation to South Africa. Rowena is now Diehard's companion. Diehard drives Zulu himself, and Zulu gets away with the general's winning lottery ticket. Zulu runs into Rhino again, and the two plan to split the jackpot at Sun City.
Cast
- Michelle Bowesas Tienkie
- Skye Svorinicas Prince William
- Ruan Mandelstamas Young Rhino
- Bobo Seritsanias Young Zulu
- Mbali Dladlaas Thandi
- Julius Van Zylas Jumbo
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Yankee Zulu (1993)
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- Yankee Zulu, which stars Leon Schuster and John Matshikiza and which Schuster co-wrote, is the highest grossing South African film in the country's box office history.
- The film controversially featured black actor John Matshikiza in whiteface and white actor Leon Schuster in blackface.
- At the Cannes Film Festival screening the audience response towards the film's humor was positive, though Variety writer David Rooney criticized it as "a coarse comedy that thumbs its nose at subtlety in favor of slapstick excess and infantile vulgarity".
