Post by teleadm on Sept 3, 2019 7:21:22 GMT
Goodbye Bafana 2007, directed by Billy August, based on a book by James Gregory and Bob Graham, starring Joseph Fiennes, Dennis Haysbert, Diane Kruger, Patrick Lyster, Shiloh Henderson, Tyrone Keogh, Faith Ndukwana and others.
Drama history biography. The story of a white South African racist (Fiennes) whose life was profoundly altered by the black prisoner he guarded for twenty years. The prisoner's name was Nelson Mandela (Heysbert).
A German-French-Belgian-South African-Italian-British-Luxembourgian co-production, with location shots from the real prisons where Mandela was kept, like Robben Island.
The truthfullness in James Gregory's book about his life as a prison-guard have lately been questioned, as of his importance in Mandela's life. Because Gregory himself passed away in 2003, he has not been able to defend his book's truthfullness.
With that in mind, it's still a very well-made production that at least I had never heard of before. It shows the attitudes of the white population that I guess was very common in it's full glory, or racism, against the black population. Political propaganda machines working hard to scare the white minority that the blacks were terrorists that wanted to throw the whites to the sharks. If as Gregory at one point shows some small humanity it can spiral out of proportions and his social status rumble, but since he could speak Xhoxa he still had some status among the higher brass.
A well-made production that is worth searching out, even if it might not be totally truthfull.
Drama history biography. The story of a white South African racist (Fiennes) whose life was profoundly altered by the black prisoner he guarded for twenty years. The prisoner's name was Nelson Mandela (Heysbert).
A German-French-Belgian-South African-Italian-British-Luxembourgian co-production, with location shots from the real prisons where Mandela was kept, like Robben Island.
The truthfullness in James Gregory's book about his life as a prison-guard have lately been questioned, as of his importance in Mandela's life. Because Gregory himself passed away in 2003, he has not been able to defend his book's truthfullness.
With that in mind, it's still a very well-made production that at least I had never heard of before. It shows the attitudes of the white population that I guess was very common in it's full glory, or racism, against the black population. Political propaganda machines working hard to scare the white minority that the blacks were terrorists that wanted to throw the whites to the sharks. If as Gregory at one point shows some small humanity it can spiral out of proportions and his social status rumble, but since he could speak Xhoxa he still had some status among the higher brass.
A well-made production that is worth searching out, even if it might not be totally truthfull.