TY  - ADVS
AU  - Korda,Zoltan
AU  - Lee,Canada
AU  - Poitier,Sidney
AU  - Paton,Alan
TI  - Cry, the beloved country
KW  - South Africa
KW  - Social life and customs
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - 1909-1948
KW  - Apartheid
KW  - Africa, Southern
N1  - Film originally made in 1951; Based on Alan Paton's novel of the same name; Cast includes Canada Lee and Sidney Poitier
N2  - 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)
ER  -