Richard Attenborrough during his directorial career became specialist for the biographies of grand historical figures. Among those, the most successful was *Gandhi*, epic about the legendary leader of Indian independence movement, that would ultimately bring him Oscars. In 1987 he tried to repeat the same feat in *Cry Freedom*, film dedicated to another famous freedom fighter. The film is based on *Biko* and *Asking…
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Cry Freedom
Cry Freedom is a 1987 epic biographical drama film directed and produced by Richard Attenborough, set in apartheid-era South Africa in 1977. The screenplay was written by John Briley based on a pair of books by journalist Donald Woods. The film centres on the real-life events involving South African activist Steve Biko and his friend Woods, who initially finds him too radical, and attempts to understand his way of…
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