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Goodbye Bafana (2007)
"Goodbye Bafana" - a thrilling drama with a historical background
If you are looking for a demanding film for the weekend, you should watch "Goodbye, Bafana". This film was directed by Bille August in 2007. It is based on the memories of Nelson Mandela's prison ward James Gregory and it plays in South Africa during the period of Apartheid (1968). The 140-minute-long film clearly represents the brutality and discrimination against black Africans. The Apartheid-regime meets with more and more resistance so that the Whites fear to lose their political influence. This makes them prohibit Anti-Apartheid-organizations and banish their leaders to the prison-island Robben Island, near Kapstadt. One of the jailed men is Nelson Mandela. On Robben Island Mandela gets to know the racist James Gregory, who watches him. As time passes Mandela convinces Gregory to change into a proponent of an equal South Africa. ...But to understand how his opinion changes you will have to view it yourself.
This film is surely worth seeing because of its dramatic action, presented by great actors like Diane Kruger or Dennis Haysbert and Joseph Fiennes. If I was asked to rate this film on a scale from zero to ten, I would give it nine points.