Across the Rubicon
Across the Rubicon
1987, English. Directed by Lionel Friedberg.
Pieter-Dirk Uys is a South African female impersonator/caricaturist whose finely-wrought satirical touring show elucidates apartheid while lampooning it. Uys walks a thin line between censorship and arrest as he occasionally steps out of characters that include P.W. Botha, Desmond Tutu and Margaret Thatcher to deliver pointed attacks on apartheid and the South African government. Uys's popularity with both white and black audiences insulates him somewhat from government interference, but he describes his balancing act as being "like doing the tango in front of a firing squad." Across the Rubicon brilliantly portrays the humor and grace with which Uys makes his contribution to the fight against apartheid.
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- 0h 54m
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- 11 July 1987
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Across the Rubicon isn’t streaming on any OTT platform in India yet; it released on 11 July 1987. (Checked 10 November 2026.)
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Across the Rubicon (1987) was directed by Lionel Friedberg and stars Pieter-Dirk Uys.