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245 0 0 _aCry, the beloved country
_h[videorecording] /
_cdirected by Zoltan Korda.
300 _a1 videodisc (103 min.) :
_bsd., b&w. ;
_c12 cm.
500 _aFilm originally made in 1951.
508 _aBased on Alan Paton's novel of the same name.
511 0 _aCast includes Canada Lee and Sidney Poitier.
520 _aIn 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).
650 0 _aSouth Africa
_xSocial life and customs
_y20th century
_vFiction.
650 0 _aSouth Africa
_xPolitics and government
_y1909-1948.
650 0 _aApartheid
_zAfrica, Southern
_vFiction.
700 1 _aKorda, Zoltan,
_edirector.
700 1 _aLee, Canada,
_eactor.
700 1 _aPoitier, Sidney,
_actor.
700 1 _aPaton, Alan.
_tCry, the beloved country.
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