Cry, the Beloved Country (1995)

Directors

Darrell Roodt

Cast

James Earl Jones, Richard Harris, Vusi Kunene, Charles S. Dutton

The story

Set in the Union of South Africa in October 1946, two years before the official implementation of apartheid, this is the story of church minister Stephen Kumalo (James Earl Jones) who is requested from his village to Johannesburg. There he discovers that his son Absalom has been arrested for the murder of a white man. Simultaneously, the white man's father, James Jarvis (Richard Harris), supports the pass laws.

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