''Mandela'' is a 1987 British
television
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drama film
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directed by
Philip Saville
Philip Saville (28 October 1927 – 22 December 2016) was a British director, screenwriter and former actor whose career lasted half a century. The British Film Institute's Screenonline website described Saville as "one of Britain's most prolifi ...
and written by
Ronald Harwood
Sir Ronald Harwood ( né Horwitz; 9 November 1934 – 8 September 2020) was a South African-born British author, playwright, and screenwriter, best known for his plays for the British stage as well as the screenplays for ''The Dresser'' (for w ...
. The film stars
Danny Glover as
Nelson Mandela and
Alfre Woodard
Alfre Woodard (; born November 8, 1952) is an American actress. She has received various accolades, including four Primetime Emmy Awards (tying the record for the most acting Emmys won by an African-American performer, along with Regina King ...
as his wife
Winnie.
The film premiered on
HBO on 20 September 1987.
Plot
Cast
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Danny Glover as
Nelson Mandela
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Alfre Woodard
Alfre Woodard (; born November 8, 1952) is an American actress. She has received various accolades, including four Primetime Emmy Awards (tying the record for the most acting Emmys won by an African-American performer, along with Regina King ...
as
Winnie Madikizela-Mandela
Winnie Madikizela-Mandela (born Nomzamo Winifred Zanyiwe Madikizela; 26 September 1936 – 2 April 2018), also known as Winnie Mandela, was a South African anti-apartheid activist and politician, and the second wife of Nelson Mandela. She se ...
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John Matshikiza
John Matshikiza (26 November 1954 – 15 September 2008) was a South African actor, theatre director, poet and journalist.
Biography
John Matshikiza was born in Johannesburg, South Africa, to Todd Matshikiza - renowned jazz pianist, composer ...
as
Walter Sisulu
Walter Max Ulyate Sisulu (18 May 1912 – 5 May 2003) was a South African anti-apartheid activist and member of the African National Congress (ANC). Between terms as ANC Secretary-General (1949–1954) and ANC Deputy President (1991–1994), h ...
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John Indi
John Indi is an actor known for his roles in ''A Far Off Place'' (1993), '' Mandela'', and '' Incident at Victoria Falls'' (1992). Indi and his actor wife Kubi Indi, started a company making beauty products company based in Africa. Background
A ...
as
Oliver Tambo
* Juanita Waterman as
Adelaide Tambo
* Saul Reichlin as
Bram Fischer
Abraham Louis Fischer (23 April 1908 – 8 May 1975) was a South African Communist lawyer of Afrikaner descent, notable for anti-apartheid activism and for the legal defence of anti-apartheid figures, including Nelson Mandela, at the Rivonia T ...
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Xoliswa Sithole as
Zindzi Mandela
Zindziswa "Zindzi" Mandela (23 December 196013 July 2020), also known as Zindzi Mandela-Hlongwane, was a South African diplomat and poet, and the daughter of anti-apartheid activists and politicians Nelson Mandela and Winnie Madikizela-Mandela. ...
* Gertrude Rook as
Zeni Mandela
* Nathan Dambuza Mdledle as
Albert Luthuli
* Mike Phillips as
Denis Goldberg
Denis Theodore Goldberg (11 April 1933 – 29 April 2020) was a South African social campaigner, who was active in the struggle against apartheid. He was accused No. 3 in the Rivonia Trial, alongside the better-known Nelson Mandela and Walter ...
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John Indi
John Indi is an actor known for his roles in ''A Far Off Place'' (1993), '' Mandela'', and '' Incident at Victoria Falls'' (1992). Indi and his actor wife Kubi Indi, started a company making beauty products company based in Africa. Background
A ...
as Bamuthi
References
External links
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1987 television films
1987 films
1987 drama films
HBO Films films
Films about Nelson Mandela
Cultural depictions of Nelson Mandela
Cultural depictions of Winnie Mandela
Peabody Award-winning broadcasts
Films directed by Philip Saville
Films shot in Zimbabwe
Apartheid films
1980s English-language films
1980s British films
British drama television films
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