Cry Freedom (1987)

24-11-1975. Steve Biko, een zwarte activist in Zuid Afrika, leert een blanke redacteur hoe het leven is van de onderdrukte zwarten, die van de blanke bevelhebbers na zessen niet over straat mogen. Steve Biko sterft in een cel maar de redacteur zet zijn strijd voort en probeert uit Zuid-Afrika te komen, de schreeuw om vrijheid.

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Richard Attenborough directed this dramatic story, based on actual events, about the friendship between two men struggling against apartheid in South Africa in the 1970s. Donald Woods (Kevin Kline) is a white liberal journalist in South Africa who begins to follow the activities of Stephen Biko (Denzel Washington), a courageous and outspoken black anti-apartheid activist. Woods and his wife Wendy (Penelope Wilton) get to know Biko, and they become friends, until Biko is brutally murdered at the hands of government troops in 1977 for his activities against the country's repression of the black majority population....
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Donald is shocked and appalled by Biko's murder and determined that the truth about Biko will become known to the world; eventually, Donald and Wendy Woods and their children must leave South Africa (and nearly everything they have) as they spread the word about Biko's life and death to ensure that he did not die in vain. Washington received an Academy Award nomination for his performance as Biko.
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The true story of murdered, black, South African, Black Consciousness Movement activist Stephen Biko, and his friendship with the white, South African newspaper editor Donald Woods.

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This is the retelling of the life of South African anti-apartheid activist Stephen Biko as seen through the eyes of his friend, liberal white newspaper editor Donald Woods. Academy Award Nominations: 3, including Best Supporting Actor--Denzel Washington.

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