An act of defiance / CMG presents a Richard Claus & Co. and Spier Films production with Bnnvara on Stilts Productions and Broadbean Media, a Jean Van De Velde film ; screenplay by Jean Van De Velde, Dominic Morgan and Matt Cameron Harvey ; produced by Richard Claus, Michael Auret, Hugh Rogers ; directed by Jean Van De Velde.
Container of (work): Act of defiance (Motion picture) Container of (expression): Act of defiance (Motion picture). Afrikaans.
Notes:
Peter Paul Muller, Antoinette Louw, Jose Domingos, Conrad Kemp, Sello Motloung. Title from disc label. Originally released as a motion picture in 2017. Based on The state versus Nelson Mandela by Joel Joffe. Wide screen (1.85:1).
Summary:
Ten political activists (including Nelson Mandela and his inner circle of Black and Jewish supporters) face a possible death sentence for conspiracy to commit sabotage after they are arrested by the apartheid South African government during a raid in the town of Rivonia in the summer of 1963. Bram Fischer, a sympathetic lawyer, risks his career and freedom to defend these men, attempting to hide the fact that he, too, frequently convened on the farm where they were arrested.
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