Tsotsi

2005 7.0 (326 votes) 1h 34m

Genres

Crime Drama

Production Companies

Movieworld Productions
UK Film & TV Production Company
National Film & Video Foundation of South Africa
Industrial Development Corporation of South Africa

In this world... Redemption comes just once.

Overview

A young South African boy from the Johannesburg ghetto named Tsotsi, meaning Gangster, leaves home as a child to get away from his helpless parents. Now a teenage thug, Tsotsi finds a baby in the back seat of a car he's just stolen. He decides that it is his responsibility to care for the infant and in the process learns that maybe the criminal life isn’t the best way.