Catalog - The City Library

Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Title:

An act of defiance / CMG presents a Richard Claus & Co. and Spier Films production with Bnnvara on Stilts Productions and Broadbean Media, a Jean Van De Velde film ; screenplay by Jean Van De Velde, Dominic Morgan and Matt Cameron Harvey ; produced by Richard Claus, Michael Auret, Hugh Rogers ; directed by Jean Van De Velde.

Publisher, Date:

[Santa Monica, CA] : Menemsha Films, [2020]

New York, NY : Kino Lorber

Description:

1 videodisc (124 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

digital

optical

video file

DVD video

Summary:

Ten political activists (including Nelson Mandela and his inner circle of Black and Jewish supporters) face a possible death sentence for conspiracy to commit sabotage after they are arrested by the apartheid South African government during a raid in the town of Rivonia in the summer of 1963. Bram Fischer, a sympathetic lawyer, risks his career and freedom to defend these men, attempting to hide the fact that he, too, frequently convened on the farm where they were arrested.

Target Audience Note:

Rating: Not rated.

Subjects:

Joffe, Joel -- Film adaptations.

Mandela, Nelson, 1918-2013 -- Trials, litigation, etc. -- Drama.

Fischer, Bram, 1908-1975 -- Drama.

Rivonia Trial, Pretoria, South Africa, 1964 -- Drama.

Trials (Political crimes and offenses) -- South Africa -- Drama.

Political activists -- South Africa -- Biography -- Drama.

Apartheid -- Drama.

South Africa -- History -- 1961-1994 -- Drama.

Genre: