A hot-shot journalist is swept up in a movement to challenge Apartheid in 1950s South Africa.
Acting
Taye Diggs carries righteous fury in every frame.
Direction
Maseko balances thriller pacing with historical weight.
Production
1950s Johannesburg feels dangerously alive.
Director
Zola Maseko
Taye Diggs
Henry Nxumalo
Gabriel Mann
Jürgen Schadeberg
Jason Flemyng
Jim Bailey
Tumisho Masha
Can Themba
Moshidi Motshegwa
Florence Nxumalo
Bonnie Mbuli
Dara Macala
Tessa Jubber
Carol Shand (as Tessa Jaye)
Zola
Slim (Alpheus) (as Bonginkosi Dlamini)
Fezile Mpela
Todd Matshikiza
Greg Melvill-Smith
Major Att Spengler
Lindani Nkosi
Nelson Mandela
Israel Makoe
Vy
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Based on real Drum magazine journalists who documented apartheid when mainstream media looked away. The actual 1950s Drum writers were known as the 'Drum generation' and included future Nobel laureates.
Director Zola Maseko spent years researching the real Henry Nxumalo, who was indeed the first black South African investigative journalist and died under suspicious circumstances in 1957.
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