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Cry, the beloved country [videorecording] / directed by Zoltan Korda.

Contributor(s): Korda, Zoltan [director.] | Lee, Canada [actor.] | Poitier, Sidney, ctor | Paton, Alan. Cry, the beloved countryMaterial type: FilmFilmDescription: 1 videodisc (103 min.) : sd., b&w. ; 12 cmSubject(s): South Africa -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Fiction | South Africa -- Politics and government -- 1909-1948 | Apartheid -- Africa, Southern -- FictionProduction credits: Based on Alan Paton's novel of the same name.Cast includes Canada Lee and Sidney Poitier.Summary: In the 1940s, a black African clergyman in rural South Africa receives a letter from Johannesburg to say that his sister is ill. The clergyman decides to go to Johannesburg to visit his sister. He also intends to find his son, who went to Johannesburg some months before, but has not been in contact since. What he discovers there reveals the limited options and degradation of blacks under apartheid, which became law the year the novel was published (1948).
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Film originally made in 1951.

Based on Alan Paton's novel of the same name.

Cast includes Canada Lee and Sidney Poitier.

In the 1940s, a black African clergyman in rural South Africa receives a letter from Johannesburg to say that his sister is ill. The clergyman decides to go to Johannesburg to visit his sister. He also intends to find his son, who went to Johannesburg some months before, but has not been in contact since. What he discovers there reveals the limited options and degradation of blacks under apartheid, which became law the year the novel was published (1948).

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