Goodbye Bafana (2007)

James Gregory (Joseph Fiennes), een racistische Zuid-Afrikaanse blanke, krijgt de opdracht om een belangrijke gevangene te bewaken op Robben Island. Gedurende de twintig jaar waarin zij met elkaar te maken krijgen, groeit er een band tussen de twee mannen, ondanks het feit dat de gevangene een neger is. De naam van de gevangene is Nelson Mandela (Dennis Haysbert).

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James Gregory's powerful memoir is brought to the screen in this adaptation. Gregory (played here by Joseph Fiennes) was Nelson Mandela's prison guard for over 20 years, and his deep-seated racism was severely challenged and ultimately changed as a result of the experience. Mandela is played by acclaimed actor Dennis Haysbert (24). Bille August, whose films have twice won the Palm d'Or at Cannes, directs this drama that also stars NATIONAL TREASURE's Diane Kruger.

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Bille August's inspirational docudrama Goodbye Bafana begins in 1968, with South Africa buried neck-deep in the horrors of apartheid and Nelson Mandela (Dennis Haysbert) -- then an underground leader of the African National Congress -- imprisoned on Robben Island for sedition. As the story opens, the native African population of the country -- 25 million in number -- buckles beneath the crippling weight of the racist white minority, who control the Nationalist Party Government. The film follows the spiritual and psychological journey of James Gregory (Joseph Fiennes), a Caucasian Afrikaner who came of age on a fa...
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rm in the Transkei and initially views all blacks as subhuman. Gregory also speaks Mandela's native language of Xhosa with perfect fluency, which makes him an ideal candidate to serve as warden of the Robben Island Prison and eavesdrop on Mandela and his inmates. What he fails to anticipate is the most unlikely and special of friendships (one of history's greatest) that burgeons between himself and Mandela -- and helps him evolve from a narrow-minded bigot with limited self-awareness to a sensitive, humane critic of social injustice with a heightened awareness of humankind's ill treatment of one another and a genuine love for his fellow man. As the friendship between Gregory and Mandela grows and matures, it symbolizes Africa's transition from the oppressiveness of apartheid to the freedom of multiracial democracy.
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