Skin (2008)

(6.4) based on 45 votes
Based on the true story of a black girl who was born to two white Afrikaner parents in South Africa during the apartheid era.
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Sep 07, 2008
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01h 47m
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Based on the true story of a black girl who was born to two white Afrikaner parents in South Africa during the apartheid era.

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