Cry Freedom (1987)

Cast

Denzel Washington
as Steve Biko
Kevin Kline
as Donald Woods
Julian Glover
as Don Card
Penelope Wilton
as Wendy Woods

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Genres & Description

Biography Drama History

7.5 / 10

Donald Woods is chief editor of the liberal newspaper Daily Dispatch in South Africa. He has written several editorials critical of the views of Steve Biko. But after having met him for the first time, he changes his opinion. They meet several times, and this means that Woods and his family get attention from the security police. When Steve Biko dies in police custody, he writes a book about Biko. The only way to get it published is for Woods himself to illegally escape the country.

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