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Directed by | Steve Jacobs |
Screenplay by | Anna Maria Monticelli |
Based on | Disgrace by J. M. Coetzee |
Produced by | Steve Jacobs Anna Maria Monticelli Emile Sherman |
Starring | John Malkovich Jessica Haines Eriq Ebouaney |
Cinematography | Steve Arnold |
Edited by | Alexandre de Franceschi |
Music by | Antony Partos |
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Running time | 120 minutes |
Country | Australia |
Languages | English Afrikaans Zulu Xhosa |
Box office | $2.1 million |
Disgrace is a 2008 Australian film,[1] based on J. M. Coetzee's 1999 novel of the same name. It was adapted for the screen by Anna Maria Monticelli and directed by her husband Steve Jacobs.[2] Starring American actor John Malkovich and South African newcomer Jessica Haines,[3] 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. The film received generally positive reviews.