Marlon Brando in ‘A Dry White Season,’ James Earl Jones in ‘Cry the Beloved Country’: Apartheid movies (photo: Marlon Brando in ‘A Dry White Season’) (See previous post: “Nelson Mandela: Sidney Poitier and ‘Malcolm X’ Cameo Apperance.”) Besides the Nelson Mandela movies discussed in the previous two posts, South Africa’s apartheid has been portrayed in a number of films in the last few decades. Among the most notable ones are the following: Zoltan Korda’s Cry the Beloved Country (1951). Based on Alan Paton’s novel, this British-made film features Canada Lee and Charles Carson as two men struggling to deal with the disastrous consequences of apartheid. Ralph Nelson’s The Wilby Conspiracy (1975). Sidney Poitier and Michael Caine star as, respectively, an anti-apartheid South African activist and a British engineer on the run from South Africa’s secret police, headed by racist Nicol Williamson. Chris Menges’ A World Apart...
- 12/7/2013
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
AMSTERDAM, The Netherlands -- Dutch film director Fons Rademakers died Thursday in a hospital in Geneva at the age of 86.
Rademakers, the first Dutch director to be nominated for an Oscar, for "Dorp aan de Rivier" (Village on the River) in 1958, went on to win an Oscar for best foreign-language film, "De Aanslag" (The Assault) in 1986.
His last film, "The Rose Garden" (1989), starring Liv Ullman, spent years in development with many actresses, among them Sissy Spacek, reluctant to accept the lead in the controversial adaptation of South African writer Andre Brink's interracial novel "An Instant in the Wind".
Rademakers, the first Dutch director to be nominated for an Oscar, for "Dorp aan de Rivier" (Village on the River) in 1958, went on to win an Oscar for best foreign-language film, "De Aanslag" (The Assault) in 1986.
His last film, "The Rose Garden" (1989), starring Liv Ullman, spent years in development with many actresses, among them Sissy Spacek, reluctant to accept the lead in the controversial adaptation of South African writer Andre Brink's interracial novel "An Instant in the Wind".
- 2/23/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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