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A dramatic story, based on actual events, about the friendship between two men struggling against apartheid in South Africa in the 1970s. Donald Woods is a white liberal journalist in South Africa who begins to follow the activities of Stephen Biko, a courageous and outspoken black anti-apartheid activist.
A heavy, suffocating sense of injustice hangs over the landscape of apartheid-era South Africa. This tense biographical drama tracks the dangerous awakening of a journalist who risks everything to document the life of a defiant anti-apartheid leader.
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Kevin Kline, Denzel Washington, Penelope Wilton, Kate Hardie, John Matshikiza, Zakes Mokae, John Thaw, Kevin McNally, John Hargreaves, Juanita Waterman
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Kevin Kline, Denzel Washington, Penelope Wilton, Kate Hardie, John Matshikiza, Zakes Mokae, John Thaw, Kevin McNally, John Hargreaves, Juanita Waterman
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