In this story of a black policeman during South African apartheid, Danny Glover plays the cop, who believes he's trying to help his people, even while serving as a pawn of the racist government. When his son gets involved in the anti-apartheid movement, he finds himself torn between his family and what he believes is his duty.
Acting
Glover's crushing slow realization he's the villain of his own story.
Direction
Freeman's debut: patient, unflinching, lets scenes ache.
Director
Morgan Freeman
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Morgan Freeman's directorial debut — he fought hard to make it after Hollywood deemed apartheid 'not commercial.'
Shot in Zimbabwe, not South Africa, during actual apartheid — locals cast as extras brought raw lived experience to protest scenes.
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