![]() ![]() 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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