The Man Who Drove with Mandela

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.