Going back over fragments of a body of work through a director’s first opus is always a littl dizzying. Often a first film has secret threads woven in, connecting it to what will become the author’s filmography. This first film by Yolande Zauberman revisits the worst moments of apartheid and portrays Robert and Doris in an intimate setting that conveys the violence and absurdity of racial segregation in South Africa. An inexperienced and fearless young filmmaker, Yolande succeeded in making an outstanding documentary on a subject that unfortunately has lost none of its topicality today, a film that bridges private and political worlds in an unwavering, destiny shaping link.

Bruno Deloye

Perhaps Classified People makes more sense today than in the past. Because we are at a distance from apartheid and the South Africa of that time, we have forgotten that it even existed. What strikes us as deeply abnormal, the unleashing of legalised hatred, was so commonplace, so widely accepted. It is obvious, it is insane. And yet, it is like looking in the mirror, the hatred we inherited, the policies we accepted, the history we still carry within.

Yolande Zauberman