Adapted for the screen by literary icon and author of the highly acclaimed
novel Cry, The Beloved Country - Alan Paton, this
incredibly powerful and moving feature is about the heartbreak and
friendship echoed between two very different men during a time of extreme
racial tension under apartheid in South Africa.
In his last role on screen, the outstanding Canada Lee plays
Kumalo, a hard up Zulu priest who journeys from a small village in rural
South Africa to Johannesburg in search of his missing son. The findings of
this good man come as blows one by one, first that his sister is a
prostitute and then that his son has been arrested and sentenced to death
for the shooting of an important white man.
Back in the village, Jarvis, a rich white farmer (Charles Carson),
indifferent to the injustices imposed by the apartheid, hears of the
murder of his son. Through this tragedy, Jarvis learns that his son was a
great activist opposed to the oppression of Black South Africans and thus
comes to have a new understanding of their struggles.
Adapted by Paton from his renowned classic novel of the same name and
directed by Zoltan Korda, this is the story of two men from
very different backgrounds who are united through the tragic deaths of
their sons and whose extension of the hand of friendship to one another
eventually brings a hope of peace among the bitter turmoil of South
African society.
We offered readers the chance to win a bluray of Studiocanal's new 4K restoration of
Cry, The Beloved Country, which releases on October 9th.
The winner is:
Hel Harding-Jones, Liverpool
