Friday, December 1, 2023
History of the Universe | Mandela
History of the Universe
Mandela – strategist, fighter, revolutionary
Nelson Mandela’s symbolic actions against apartheid in South Africa inspired people around the world. Although he was imprisoned as an enemy of the state in his native country for more than a quarter of a century, supporters from all political and cultural backgrounds made him a legend. The sometimes radical fighter Nelson Mandela became an icon of peace and freedom. An in-universe story about the people behind the myth.
A documentary by François-Xavier Destors
Editing: Andrea Lehner
(Wh. on December 4, ORF 2)
11:20 p.m.
Mandela
The long road to freedom
(Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom – Biography, GBR/ZAF 2013)
Major film adaptation of the dramatic autobiography of Nobel Peace Prize winner Nelson Mandela, whose death anniversary will be 10 years old on December 5, 2023. Just as an ANC activist in the fight against apartheid, after 27 years in prison on Robben Island , finally celebrated in freedom as President of South Africa – brilliantly embodied by ‘Golden Globe’ winner Idris Elba (‘Luther’), supported by Naomie Harris (‘James Bond: Spectrum and Skyfall’). Extra class biopic!
Nelson Mandela, born in a South African village in 1918, gained attention as a politically active lawyer in Johannesburg in the 1940s. In the fight against the apartheid system, he joined the African National Congress (ANC). His commitment causes his marriage to Evelyn Mase to fail. He then gains an ambitious colleague, social worker Winnie Madikizela. After peaceful protesters are shot by white police in Sharpville, Mandela participates in acts of sabotage. In 1962 he was captured and sentenced to life imprisonment on Robben Island.
Starring Idris Elba (Nelson Mandela), Naomie Harris (Winnie Madikizela), Tony Kgoroge (Walter Sisulu), Riaad Moosa (Ahmed Kathrada), Zolani Mkiva (Raymond Mhlaba), Simo Mogwaza (Andrew Mlangeni), Fana Mokoena (Govan Mbeki), Jamie Bartlett (James Gregory), Deon Lotz (Kobie Coetzee) and others
Directed by Justin Chadwick
136.38
Year: 2013 (in two-channel stereo sound technology: German in DD 5.1 / English)