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Pleure, ô pays bien aimé (Cry, the Beloved Country) [réal : Zoltan Korda]

  • Pleure, ô pays bien aimé (Cry, the Beloved Country) [...]
Genre : Drama
Type : Fiction
Original title :
Principal country concerned : Column : Cinema/tv
Year of production : 1952
Format : Feature
Running time : 103 (in minutes)
http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/archives/ficheFilm/id/4001/year/1952.html

During apartheid's beginnings, in the South African hinterlands, the black minister Stephen Kumalo (Canada Lee) sets out on a journey to find his lost son, who has apparently turned to crime. Surrounded by the poverty of ordinary people, he meets Reverend Misimangu (Sidney Poitier), a young South African pastor, who helps him on his search. This one of the last films made by Zoltan Korda, a Hungarian-British filmmaker, and which was presented at Cannes in 1952, as well as Berlin, where it won the best director award.

South Africa / United Kingdom, 1951, Feature, Drama, B&w, 1h43′, English, 35 mm

Directed by : Zoltan KORDA
Country: UNITED KINGDOM

Zoltan KORDA - Director
Alan PATON - Screenplay
Wilfred SHINGLETON - Set Designer
Robert KRASKER - Cinematography
R. GALLOIS MONTBRUN - Music

ACTORS
Sidney POITIER
Canada LEE
Charles CARSON
CAREY
Vivianne CLINTON
Michael GOODLIFFE
Geoffrey KEEN

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