He is also confused by the newfound guilt he suddenly feels about these rapes.
David goes through a crisis, not knowing how to cope with his personal and family tragedies. One day, David and Lucy are attacked by three men, who rape Lucy. At first, the two experience harmony and Lurie finds peace with himself, though he grows suspicious of Lucy's farm manager, Petrus ( Eriq Ebouaney). David's colleagues offer him a quiet exit to save face, but he brashly affirms his guilt and refuses to admit wrongdoing, forcing the board to punish him more harshly.ĭavid takes refuge with his daughter, Lucy ( Jessica Haines), who owns a farm in the Eastern Cape. University officials learn of the incident and bring David before a disciplinary board. David has an affair with one of his students, Melanie Isaacs (Antoinette Engel). The film received generally positive reviews.ĭavid Lurie ( John Malkovich) is an ageing white professor teaching Romantic literature at an unnamed university in Cape Town shortly after the end of apartheid. Starring American actor John Malkovich and South African newcomer Jessica Haines, it tells the story of a South African university professor in the post- apartheid era who moves to his daughter's Eastern Cape farm when his affair with a student costs him his position.
It was adapted for the screen by Anna Maria Monticelli and directed by her husband Steve Jacobs. Disgrace is a 2008 Australian film, based on J.
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