Claude Maredza Movies
- 1993
In Zimbabwe's traditional culture, when a woman's husband dies, the man's brothers (if any) are supposed to take care of her and, after a year set aside for mourning, they are supposed to marry her. Mind you, in these circumstances nobody asks the widow anything about what she prefers. In this melodramatic story (with a few comic touches), Neria has just lost her husband and her brother-in-law has decided to take full advantage of the situation. The sort of man who likes to torment people just for the fun of it, he not only reduces Neria to servitude, but tries to bribe her children so that they turn against her. One day, she has altogether all she can stand, and seeks out a good lawyer. Her brother-in-law has a good lawyer too, and her freedom looks like it is very much in jeopardy, except that she is lucky in the judge for the case, who sets things right. Neria also refuses to marry any of her other brothers' in law after the year of mourning is up, scandalizing her relatives. ~ Clarke Fountain, Rovi
- Starring:
- Dominic Kanaventi
Richard Attenborough directed this dramatic story, based on actual events, about the friendship between two men struggling against apartheid in South Africa in the 1970s. Donald Woods (Kevin Kline) is a white liberal journalist in South Africa who begins to follow the activities of Stephen Biko (Denzel Washington), a courageous and outspoken black anti-apartheid activist. Woods and his wife Wendy (Penelope Wilton) get to know Biko, and they become friends, until Biko is brutally murdered at the hands of government troops in 1977 for his activities against the country's repression of the black majority population. Donald is shocked and appalled by Biko's murder and determined that the truth about Biko will become known to the world; eventually, Donald and Wendy Woods and their children must leave South Africa (and nearly everything they have) as they spread the word about Biko's life and death to ensure that he did not die in vain. Washington received an Academy Award nomination for his performance as Biko. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
- Starring:
- Kevin Kline, Penelope Wilton, (more)
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