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Cry, the Beloved Country is a 1951 British drama film directed by Zoltán Korda and starring Sidney Poitier, Charles Carson and Canada Lee, in his last film role. The film is based on the novel of the same name written by Alan Paton.
Cry, the Beloved Country: Directed by Zoltan Korda. With Canada Lee, Charles Carson, Sidney Poitier, Joyce Carey. In the back country of South Africa, black minister Stephen Kumalo (Canada Lee) journeys to the city to search for his missing son, only to find his people living in squalor and his son a criminal.
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- Zoltan Korda
- 1952-04-26
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Dec 14, 2023 · Stephen Kumalo is traveling to Johannesburg in search of his son Absalom, who has been accused of murdering a white man, and his sister.
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Oct 1, 2023 · In adapting Alan Paton’s classic novel, published in 1948 on the eve of apartheid, Zoltan Korda’s powerful, beautiful and political 1951 film is wrapped by beginnings and endings. Cry, the Beloved Country was to be Canada Lee’s final film and one of Sidney Poitier’s first.
Nov 14, 2008 · Cry, the Beloved Country (1951) deals head-on with the evils of South Africa's apartheid system, which gave the full force of law to white supremacy and ruthless subordination of the country's black majority until it was finally dismantled in the 1990s. The screenplay is by Alan Paton, based on the eponymous novel he wrote in 1946, the year of ...
- Zoltan Korda
- Canada Lee
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Cry, the Beloved Country is a 1948 novel by South African writer Alan Paton. Set in the prelude to apartheid in South Africa, it follows a black village priest and a white farmer who must deal with news of a murder.
