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Mandela (1987)

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Film details

Featuring

Alfre Woodard Allan Corduner Warren Clarke
Countries

United Kingdom USA
Year

1987
Genre

Biopic
Type

Television
Category

Fiction

Synopsis

TV Film about the black S. African civil rights leader Nelson Mandela, who has been in prison for his beliefs for over 25 years. (Made before his release.) This is a dramatisation of the lives of Nelson and Winnie Mandela and the love between them, drawn from the bond between two people who are impriosoned for their beliefs. It is 1952 when Nelson arrives in Johannesburg and establishes the first black legal practice in the central `white' area. His courtship with Winnie is disrupted by the horror of Sharpville and his arrest. On bail, he goes underground. Passive resistance fails, so a policy of sabotage begins...

Cast & Credits

Cast
- - Winnie Mandela
    
    Alfre Woodard
  - Benny
    
    Allan Corduner
  - Swanepoel
    
    Warren Clarke
  - Nelson Mandela
    
    Danny Glover
  - Walter Sisulu
    
    John Matshikiza
  - Chief Albert Luthuli
    
    Nathan Dambuza
  - Police Chief
    
    Julian Glover
Credits
- Unknown:
  - Director
    
    Philip Saville
  - Production Company
    
    Inc. Titus Productions
  - Production Company
    
    Polymuse
  - Production Company
    
    Home Box Office
  - Production Company
    
    Television South
  - Executive Producer
    
    Herbert Brodkin
  - Executive Producer
    
    Robert Berger
  - Producer
    
    Dickie Bamber
  - Production Co-ordinator
    
    Margaret Adams
  - Location Manager
    
    Allan James
  - Assistant Director (1st)
    
    Chris Carreras
  - Assistant Director (Co-1st)
    
    Steve Chigorimbo
  - Assistant Director (2nd)
    
    Terry Bamber
  - Script Supervisor
    
    Noakes, Angela
  - Casting
    
    Marilyn Johnson
  - Script
    
    Ronald Harwood
  - Director of Photography
    
    John Coquillon
  - Camera Operator
    
    John Maskall
  - Focus Puller
    
    Martin Testar
  - Focus Puller
    
    Julian Barber
  - Clapper Loader
    
    David Atkinson
  - Clapper Loader
    
    Michael Spragg
  - Gaffer
    
    Alan Martin
  - Stills Photography
    
    Tony Nutley
  - Editor
    
    Ralph Sheldon
  - Production Designer
    
    Mike Porter
  - Art Director
    
    Mark Ward
  - Property Master
    
    Bert Gadsden
  - Costume Designer
    
    Michael Robbie
  - Title Design
    
    Pauline Hume
  - Music
    
    Richard Hartley
  - Music Editor
    
    Michael Clifford
  - Sound Mixer
    
    Roy Charman
  - Boom Operator
    
    John Stevenson
  - Sound Re-recording
    
    Mike Dowson
  - Dubbing Mixer
    
    Andy Nelson
  - Sound Editor
    
    John Poyner
  - Stunt Co-ordinator
    
    Peter Brace

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