Cry Freedom

Cry Freedom

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Status

Released

Release Date

Jan 1, 1981

Runtime

1h 10m

Genres

Drama

User Score

60%

Original Title

Cry Freedom

Production Companies

Afrocult Foundation

Director

Ola Balogun

Description

Balogun's most political film is a confrontation with the African wars of liberation. Based on Carcase for Hounds, Meja Mwangi's novel about the Mau-Mau uprising, it is set in an unnamed country and thus offers the vision of a pan-African struggle for freedom and against colonial oppression. The central figures in the straightforwardly and powerfully told story are the guerrilla leader Haraka and his adversary, the English colonial official Kingsley. In the end, the film becomes a homage to the freedom fighters from all over Africa: the final images show Patrice Lumumba, Steve Biko, Nelson Mandela and Amílcar Cabral, among others.