“Mandela: Long Walk To Freedom”,
releasing on 24th January 2014.
Starring–Idris Elba, Naomie Harris, Terry
Pheto, Tony Kgoroge, Jamie Bartlett, etc
SYNOPSIS
It wasn’t politics that liberated a
nation, it was love.
A boy herds his
father's cattle over the Transkei hills. A teenager cries out as he's ritually
circumcised, 'I am a man!' A young lawyer buys himself sharp suits and fast
cars in post-war Johannesburg. A reluctant advocate for his people, swept up in
the murderous repressions of apartheid South Africa, becomes an armed
revolutionary. A wanted man on the run becomes a prisoner shut away on Robben
Island to be forgotten forever.
Over the long years
helearns to forgive, and to win the trust of his enemies. A father and
grandfather who has never known his children and grandchildren comes out of
prison to lead his people. The boy who ran barefoot over the hills becomes the
first President of a free South Africa.
No man in history has
done what Nelson Mandela has done. In changing himself from warrior to
peacemaker, he transformed his country and set an example to the world. But the
price he paid was heavy. Separated after two short years from the love of his
life, Winnie, he was helpless to protect her from the apartheid state, which
did all it could to break her spirit. Even as he was teaching himself to
forgive, she was learning to hate.
When at last he was
free to lead South Africa in peace, she was calling for war. He came out of
prison to find himself a hero to the world, but he had lost the one woman whose
picture had been by his side all through the long lonely years.
An old man walks
alone in the spectacular countryside of his native Transkei. His prodigious
life was inspired by two fundamental dreams: freedom for his people and his
love for a woman. And he couldn’t have both.
The
film is scheduled to release in India on Friday 24th January 2014.
