Director Tony Palmer tells the incredible life story of Athol Fugard, the prolific playwright, novelist, and director who exposed the horrors of South Africa's apartheid system for the entire world to see. Interviews with Desmond Tutu, Nelson Mandela, Yvonne Bryceland and others help to illuminate Fugard's remarkable legacy.
Acting
Fugard's own testimony — devastating, unvarnished, irreplaceable.
Direction
Palmer lets silence land like a punch.
Writing
The story structure mirrors Fugard's own dramatic craft.
Director
Tony Palmer
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Alan Rickman insisted on participating for free after performing in Fugard's 'The Road to Mecca' — he considered the debt unpayable.
Palmer filmed Fugard's actual notebooks and rehearsal spaces that no other documentarian had accessed — the cramped handwriting tells its own story of obsession.
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