Inside | |
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Genre | Crime Drama |
Screenplay by | Bima Stagg |
Directed by | Arthur Penn |
Starring |
Nigel Hawthorne Eric Stoltz Louis Gossett Jr. |
Theme music composer | Robert Levin |
Country of origin | USA |
Original language(s) | English |
Production | |
Executive producer(s) | Louis Gossett Jr. Dan Paulson |
Producer(s) |
Hillard Elkins David Wicht Michael L. Games (line producer) |
Location(s) | Johannesburg, South Africa |
Cinematography | Jan Weincke |
Editor(s) | Suzanne Pillsbury |
Running time | 94 minutes |
Production company(s) |
Elkins Entertainment Film Afrika Worldwide Logo Entertainment Showtime Networks |
Distributor | Viacom |
Budget | $2,000,000 |
Release | |
Original network | Showtime |
Original release | August 25, 1996 |
External links | |
Website |
Inside is a 1996 cable television film directed by Arthur Penn based on a script by Bima Stagg. It was the director's final film. The film was shot in Johannesburg, South Africa and premiered in the USA on Showtime on 25 August 1996. The film was then released theatrically in several markets and played at several film festivals around the world including Cannes, Toronto, San Francisco and Munich. The film was nominated for an Emmy, and a Cable Ace Award.
Colonel Kruger (Nigel Hawthorne) tortures a political prisoner (Eric Stoltz) to learn who his anti-apartheid collaborators are. Ten years later, this same Colonel himself becomes a prisoner and is interrogated about his own offenses.