CRY FREEDOM - BLU

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• Release Year: 1987
• Genre: Drama
• Plot: The tension and terror that is present-day South Africa is powerfully portrayed in director Richard Attenborough's sweeping story of black activist Stephen Biko and a liberal white newspaper editor who risks his own life to bring Biko's message to the world.; After learning of apartheid's true horrors through Biko's eyes, editor Donald Woods discovers that his friend has been silenced by the police. Determined not to let Biko's message go unheard, Woods undertakes a perilous quest to escape South Africa and bring Biko's remarkable tale of courage to the world. The riveting, true story offers a stirring account of man at his most evil and most heroic.
• Cast: Niven Boyd, Tony Vogel, Christopher Hurst, Gerald Sim, Peter Cartwright, Gary Whelan, Dudley Dickin, David Trevena, Badi Uzzaman, Robert Phillips, Fishoo Tembo, Peggy Marsh, Gwyneth Strong, Julian Glover, John Hargreaves, Philip Bretherton, Paul Herzberg, Robert MacNamara, Hans Sittig, Kimpton Mativenga, David Henry, Michael Turner, William Marlowe, Leonard Boucher, Ian McNeice, Ian Richardson, Mawa Makondo, Kalie Hanekom, Paul Jerrico, Star Ncube, David Guwaza, Tommy Buson, Joseph Marcell, Hilary Minster, James Aubrey, Peter Cary, Dominic Kanaventi, Sam Mathambo, Walter Muparutsa, Judy Cornwell, Alec McCowen, Gwen Watford, John Paul, Louis Mahoney, Michael Graham Cox, John Hartley, Simon Shumba, Garrick Hagon, Nick Tate, Marilyn Poole, Denzel Washington, Kevin Kline, Josette Simon, Wabei Siyolwe, John Matshikiza, Juanita Waterman, Evelyn Sithole, Xoliswa Sithole, James Coine, Kevin McNally, Albert Ndinda, Andrew Whaley, Shelley Borkum, Penelope Wilton, Kate Hardie, Graeme Taylor, Adam Stuart Walker, Hamish Stuart Walker, Spring Stuart Walker, Sophie Mgcina, Jim Findley, Patricia Gumede, Angela Gavaza, Nocebo Mlambo, Walter Matemavi, Clement Muchachi, Ruth Chinamando, Basil Chidyamathamba, Marcy Mushore, Alton Kumalo, Lawrence Simbarashe, Timothy West, Carl Chase, William Morgan Sheppard, Tichatonga Mazhindu, Zakes Mokae, John Thaw, Miles Anderson, Neil McPherson, Hepburn Graham, Claude Maredza, Carlton Chance, Glen Murphy, Russell Keith Grant, Munyaradzi Kanaventi, George Lovell, Andrew McCulloch, Graham Fletcher-Cook, Karen Drury, Richard Attenborough
• Director: Richard Attenborough
• Runtime: 2:39
• Company: Universal Studios
• Media Format: movie