Twelve Disciples of Nelson Mandela
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Original title | Twelve Disciples of Nelson Mandela |
Country of production | USA / South Africa |
original language | Afrikaans / English / Setswana |
Publishing year | 2005 |
length | 75 minutes |
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Director | Thomas Allen Harris |
script | Thomas Allen Harris |
production | Thomas Allen Harris , Rudean Leinaeng, Woo Jung-cho, Don Perry |
music | Vernon Reid |
camera | Jonathan Kovel, David Forbes |
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Twelve Disciples of Nelson Mandela is a documentary film by the American director Thomas Allen Harris .
The documentary film about twelve members of the first generation of the ANC , the so-called Twelve Students of Nelson Mandela , consists of interviews with the surviving members of this group, re-enacted scenes from their story and personal memories of the director of his stepfather Benjamin Pule "Lee" Leinaeng, a leading member of the group.
The American Harris was strongly influenced by the political atmosphere in his stepfather's house, which became the center of the ANC in New York . As a personal homage, the film is subtitled A Son's Tribute to Unsung Heroes . The reason for the search for traces was Leinaeng's funeral in Bloemfontein in 2000, so that he no longer has a say, but only some of his companions.
The story of the twelve freedom fighters began in Bloemfontein in the late 1950s, where they were students at a high school in the township of Botshabelo and were confronted daily with the brutality of the apartheid system . They were politically sensitized by their teacher Winkie Direko , who became Prime Minister of the Free State after the end of apartheid . After the Sharpeville massacre , the group in 1960 fled across Botswana to Dar es Salaam , Nelson Mandela met in Sudan were in Cuba military training and eventually some of them found exile in East Germany , where Lee journalism met before a grant from the Lincoln University in the USA received. In New York he set up an office of the ANC, taught temporarily at New York University and from 1981 worked in the anti-apartheid office of the UN . Eight years later he visited Bloemfontein for the first time since fleeing, where he lived again from 1997.
Web links
- Twelve Disciples of Nelson Mandela in the Internet Movie Database (English)