Disgrace is the story of a South African professor of English who loses everything: his reputation, his job, his peace of mind, his good looks, his dreams of artistic success, and finally even his ability to protect his cherished daughter. After having an affair with a student, he moves to the Eastern Cape, where he gets caught up in a mess of post-apartheid politics.
Acting
Malkovich's most restrained, devastating performance.
Writing
Coetzee's prose adapted with surgical precision.
Direction
Jacobs lets silences scream louder than dialogue.
Director
Steve Jacobs
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
J.M. Coetzee wrote the screenplay himself but was so dissatisfied he requested his name be removed; it stayed.
The film was shot in Grahamstown (now Makhanda) where Coetzee taught, making it an eerie homecoming of his own academic disillusionment.
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