Release Date: Feb 16, 1997 Wide
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In an historical docudrama that was made for television, Sidney Poitier performs the role of Nelson Mandela, while Michael Caine plays the South African president Frederick Willem De Klerk, the man who instituted the reforms that would abolish apartheid, who released Nelson Mandela from nearly 30 years in prison, and who jointly received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1992 with Mandela for creating the transition to a nonracial democracy in South Africa. The negotiations between Mandela and De Klerk
Feb 16, 1997 Wide
May 3, 2005
Hallmark Entertainment
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Charts the arduous journey to a free and democratic South Africa.
not a great film, but some good performances by sidney poitier and micheal caine. worth watching if you want to know more about south africa.
August 9, 2010the film offers mildly good performances by poitier and caine, both of whom offer more in the realm of emotion than in the realm of accuracy. but the film itself is not emotionally tuned, leaving the charismatic leads out of place and making the film look like a dry history lesson, merely summarizing the events that
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