Cry Freedom
by Richard Attenborough
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Actor: Denzel Washington, John Matshikiza, Josette Simon, Kevin Kline, Wabei SiyolweDirector: Richard Attenborough
Brand: WASHINGTON,DENZEL
Cinematographer: Ronnie Taylor
Producer: Richard Attenborough
Producer: John Briley
Writer: John Briley
Producer: Norman Spencer
Producer: Terence A. Clegg
Writer: Donald Woods
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Subtitled
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 157 minutes
DVD Release Date: 1999-02-23
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Universal Studios
DVD Reviews of Cry Freedom
DVD Review: Freedomn for South Africans
Summary: 3 Stars
This is an interesting historical movie about the struggle for freedom of blacks in Africa.DVD Review: Poor Delivery Service
Summary: 2 Stars
I paid for this DVD to be shipped within two days. It did not arrive on the day it was supposed to. UPS delivered it to the wrong address. Very disappointed in the way in which it was handled both by UPS and Amazon.DVD Review: Cry Freedom
Summary: 5 Stars
A greater and more important performance by Denzel Washington then Malcolm X in my opinion, this story which chronicles a reporters interaction with S. African civil rights leader Stephen Biko and the events leading up to and following his death. The end of this movie can drag on a bit, but the messages and historical dipictions of the corruption, racism, and cruelty of the apatheid S. African regime cannot and should not be forgotten. In my opinion this movie should be a manditory part of H.S. curriculums. To many youths of today know the word apartheid, but too little else. This movie is a must see.DVD Review: The future is absent
Summary: 4 Stars
A long film about a very important character from South Africa, Stephen Biko. He is one of these Blacks who did not survive apartheid, who actually died a long time before their normal time. The already old film though does not show how important Biko was, what he really represented. His life and his teaching is reduced to little, at best a few witty remarks. The film being from 1987, the objective was to push South Africa over the brink that would lead her to liberation. So the film aims at showing how irrational the South African supporters of apartheid are, in 1987. To show this the film has to look beyond Biko's death, hence to center its discourse not on Biko but on a white liberal journalist and his escaping the absurd system in which he is living. His escape is made necessary because of the victimization he is the victim of, along with his family, and because he wants to publish the first book on Biko, after his death, and that can only happen in England. The film shows a way to escape South Africa, while apartheid is still standing and killing. So do not expect this way to be realistic and true. It could not be. But the film has tremendously aged because it does not show South Africa with any historical distantiation, the very distantiation that has taken place under Nelson Mandela's presidency and that is called forgiveness provided those who want to be forgiven speak up and out. The film is strong and emotional but that very historical limit makes it rather weak today, especially since the film does not mention the third racial community, the Indians. Panegyric books or films all have that defect: they are looking at the person they are supposed to portrait from only one point of view. That explains why the film has aged so much, seems to be coming from so long ago, as if nothing had changed at all. A remake is necessary.
Dr Jacques COULARDEAU, University Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne, University Versailles Saint Quentin en Yvelines, CEGID
DVD Review: Yes!!!
Summary: 5 Stars
Loved, loved, loved this movie! Denzel once again does a superb job of depicting Biko....don't know why I hadn't seen it earlier.
Description of Cry Freedom
Story of the horrors of apartheid, based on the true story of the friendship between white newspaper reporter Donald Woods and South African Black activist Stephen Biko.Genre: Feature Film-Drama
Rating: PG
Release Date: 2-SEP-2003
Media Type: DVD
Sir Richard Attenborough (Gandhi) directs this semi-successful drama about the relationship between South African black activist Steven Biko and a sympathetic newspaper editor (Kevin Kline). Attenborough's typical sweep of the life and times of Biko is particularly rewarding in the first half of the film, but once the leader comes to his untimely end at the hands of white police, the story shifts entirely to Kline's character and the latter's efforts to escape the country with his family. That change is a tactical error in the script that robs the film of its initial power and makes the arguably unfortunate choice of emphasizing the destiny of a white character when Biko himself deserved an entire feature for his story and causes. --Tom Keogh
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