Cry Freedom - Le cri de la liberté (1987)
Cry Freedom
Réalisateur : Richard Attenborough
Scénaristes : John Briley, Donald Woods
Genre : Drame
157 minutes
Status : Released
Budget : 29 000 000 $
Langue : English
Pays : United Kingdom, Zimbabwe
Sociétés de production : Universal Pictures, Marble Arch Productions
Synopsis
En 1975 en Afrique du Sud, le journaliste blanc Donald Woods se lie d'amitié avec Stephen Biko le leader d'un mouvement extrémiste: «Black Consciousness» qu'il rencontre au cours d'un reportage. De plus en plus proches, Woods est témoin d'actes de violence de la part de la police contre la communauté noire et s'implique de plus en plus dans la lutte anti-apartheid... jusqu'à l'arrestation de Biko et sa mort dans des conditions que les autorités tentent de dissimuler...
- Kevin Kline - Donald Woods
- Denzel Washington - Steve Biko
- Penelope Wilton - Wendy Woods
- Kate Hardie - Jane Woods
- John Matshikiza - Mapetla
- Zakes Mokae - Father Kani
- John Thaw - Kruger
- Kevin McNally - Ken
- John Hargreaves - Bruce
- Juanita Waterman - Ntsiki Biko
- Julian Glover - Don Card
- Josette Simon - Dr Ramphele
- Timothy West - Capt. De Wet
- Miles Anderson - Lemick
- Ian Richardson - State Prosecutor
- Andrew McCulloch - Policeman Nel
- Gerald Sim - Police Doctor
- Gary Whelan - Guard
- Glen Murphy - Guard
- Peter Cartwright - Police Sergeant
- Badi Uzzaman - Mortician
- Gwyneth Powell - Girl at Funeral
- Philip Bretherton - Major Boshoff
- Alec McCowen - Acting High Comissioner
- Joseph Marcell - Moses
- Judy Cornwell - Receptionist
- John Paul - Wendy's Father
- Gwen Watford - Wendy's Mother
- William Marlowe - Police Sergeant
- Paul Jerricho - Sergeant Louw
- Nick Tate - Pilot
- Andrew Whaley - Sub-Editor
- Shelley Borkum - Woods' Receptionist
- Albert Ndinda - Alec
- Evelyn Sithole - Nurse at Clinic
- Xoliswa Sithole - Nurse at Clinic
- James Coine - Young Boy
- Wabei Siyolwe - Tenjy
- Tony Vogel - 2nd Roadblock Policeman
- Michael Graham Cox - 3rd Passport Control Officer
- Hepburn Graham - Soga
- Graeme Taylor - Dillon Woods
- Sophie Mgcina - Evalina
- Jim Findley - Peter Jones
- Garrick Hagon - McElrea
- Adam Stuart Walker - Duncan Woods
- Hamish Stuart Walker - Gavin Woods
- Spring Stuart Walker - Meg Woods
- Patricia Gumede - Shebeen Queen
- Angela Gavaza - Shebeen Queen's Niece
- Nocebo Mlambo - Aunt
- Walter Matemavi - Nephew
- Clement Muchachi - Father
- Ruth Chinamando - Mother
- Basil Chidyamathamba - Brother-in-Law
- Marcy Mushore - Niece
- Alton Kumalo - Speaker
- Lawrence Simbarashe - Informer
- Carl Chase - Policeman
- William Morgan Sheppard - Policeman (as Morgan Sheppard)
- Tichatonga Mazhindu - Dilima
- Neil McPherson - Lemick's Assistant
- Claude Maredza - 1st Rugby Player
- Carlton Chance - 2nd Rugby Player
- Russell Keith Grant - 2nd Security Guard
- Munyaradzi Kanaventi - Samora Biko
- George Lovell - Nkosinathi Biko
- Graham Fletcher-Cook - Nel's Partner
- Karen Drury - Young Secretary
- Niven Boyd - 1st Roadblock Policeman
- Christopher Hurst - 3rd Roadblock Policeman
- Dudley Dickin - Nationalist Party Delegate
- David Trevena - Mortician
- Robert Phillips - Speaker at Funeral
- Fishoo Tembo - Biko's Brother
- Peggy Marsh - Helen Suzman
- Gwyneth Strong - Girl at Funeral
- Paul Herzberg - Beukes
- Robert MacNamara - Security Policeman
- Hans Sittig - Security Policeman
- Kimpton Mativenga - Black Security Policeman
- David Henry - Afrikaner Farmer
- Michael Turner - Judge Boshoff
- Mawa Makondo - Jason
