What was the best anti-apartheid movie?

Question

Back in the 80's and early 90's, there was an entire slew of these movies. They all had their hearts in the right place, but unfortunately, the end result was putting the Marxist criminal Mandela, and the rest of the evil, backward criminals of the ANC in power.
Forever.
Most of these movies were condescending, Hollywoodized versions of South Africa and South Africans, but some were pretty good. For my money, the best was 'Cry Freedom' with Denzel Washington. Saw that in Hillbrow in '90, and despite initial tredpidation, came away most impressed with Attenborough's movie.
They nailed it. Denzel Washington looked and sounded like a black man from the townships, Kevin Kline looked and sounded like a middle class, English speaking white South African and Attenborough's movie perfectly depicted SA in the 70's.
All you new generation SA's want to know what it was like back then, check out this movie.

Notice that now blacks are destroying the country, no one's making movies about it.

african lion - where do you see apartheid in the States?

Answer 1

Ya definately Cry Freedom...
maybe Sarafina.....

Answer 2

Cry Freedom was very good. But I think when you start making statements like, "Blacks are destroying the country", you immediately lose credibility. The Mandela government might be destroying the country but I don't know enough about it. My husband lived in South Africa for a few years and seem to think that. To be honest most of what I know about the current state of South Africa I have gotten from the few episodes of Oprah that I have watched. She really shows a lot of the horrors that seem to be going on down there. I think that because of all the build up toward the end of the apartheid we all ended up with this image of the evil apartheid government and so everyone jumped for joy and thought the great Mandela would take care of everything and that they would all live happily ever after. I don't think anyone stopped to concern themselves with the question of whether or not he was a capable leader or what his politics are.

What about that Toitsi movie? I haven't seen it but isn't it about present day SA?

Answer 3

Jimmy Carter replaced into incorrect. there have been very nearly no regulations in apartheid-era South Africa. There are regulations now - in most cases discrimination adversarial to Whites, notwithstanding Israeli regulations imposed on Palestinians in the West economic employer and Gaza strip are severe, racist and sparkling abuses of human rights. also they are unlawful below global regulation, as is Israel's occupation of Palestinian land. for sure they damage out with it by using safe practices of that different maverick global regulation-breaker, the country.

Answer 4

I haven't seen that one either. I am just not into the whole, oooh let's make a movie about SAfricans and depict them the way we see them. I just want to relax when I watch a movie, not think too much about it.

Someone asked about Tsotsi. I saw it, thought it was ok. I know they won an Oscar for it and I was proud. However, I think that I am just immune to all those things, so I didn't think it was anything amazing. Bits of it were quite boring.

Answer 5

Sarafina

Answer 6

"Sarafina".Only foriegn actor in it was Whoppi so it was home made and really gives light as to what happened on June 16 1976.I also love "Cry the beloved coutry".

Answer 7

Cry Freedom, by far.

I LOVED that movie - and I was really young when I saw it...

Now I wanna go watch it again...

Answer 8

african lion i agree with you, leave the past in the past. how do they expect us to build a better nation if every one is stuck on the past.

grow up people

Answer 9

I agree - Cry Freedom

Answer 10

The best one they ever made !!!!! That is the one they never made,,,,,,,,,apartheid is dead, buried, and should now be left alone, for that matter "anti apartheid as well "
I have seen more apartheid incidently in many countries, such as the USA, France, etc etc than what we ever had,,,,