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Bookmark this pageThe Man Who Drove with Mandela (1998)
Director: Greta Schiller
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From Time Out Film Guide
A documentary tribute to Cecil Williams, a leading theatre director in South Africa in 1950s and '60s who was also powerfully committed to the ANC. The fact that he was also gay may be a factor in the ANC's enlightened policies towards homosexuality. Schiller (who made Before Stonewall) combines archive news footage with interview testimony, and casts Redgrave as Williams, wandering a stage set recollecting his life and times. There's not a great deal of Mandela here, but it's a revealing record of wider social attitudes to race and sexuality in post-WWII South Africa.Author: TCh
Cast & crew
Director: Greta Schiller
Producer: Greta Schiller, Mark Gevisser, Simon Allen
Cast: Corin Redgrave, Joseph Bale, Gavin Hayward, Robert Tsiesi, Ashley Brownlee, Adnaan Bassier, Walter Sisulu full cast
Genre(s): Documentaries
Duration: 82 mins
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