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Genre : Drama | Original Language : English, Xhosa | Country : Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, South Africa, United Kingdom
Directed by : Bille August Screenplay : Greg Latter/Bille August Cinematographer : Robert Fraisse Editor : Hervé Schneid, A.C.E.
Producers/ Co- Producers : Jean-Luc Van Damme, Ilann Girard, Andro Steinborn, David Wicht, Stephen Margolis, Roberto Cipullo, Gerardo Pagliei, Kami Naghdi, Michael Dounaev, Jimmy De Brabant, Kwesi Dickson
Duration : 114 Mins
“No one is born hating another person because of the colour of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more natural to the human heart than its opposite.”
Nelson Mandela
Original Title
Goodbye Bafana
Synopsis
“There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find ways in which you yourself have altered.” Nelson Mandela – A Long Walk To Freedom Twenty-five million blacks are ruled by a minority of four million whites under the brutal Apartheid regime of the Nationalist Party Government.Black people have no vote,no land rights, no rights to freedom of movement,to own a business,to housing or education.Determined to retain power,whites ban all black opposition organisations,forcing their leaders into exile or imprisoning them for life on Robben Island.James Gregory (Joseph Fiennes),a typical white Afrikaner,regards blacks as sub-human.Having grown up on a farm in the Transkei,he learned to speak Xhosa at an early age.This makes him an ideal choice to become the warder in charge of Mandela (Dennis Haysbert) and his comrades on Robben Island .After all, Gregory speaks their language and can spy on them.
However, through Mandela''s influence, Gregory starts to believe Mandela’s ideas of a free and democratic South Africa. Forced to either follow these new ideas or stay faithful to his old principles, Gregory’s life-altering journey is offset against the backdrop of South Africa’s pivotal moment in history.
