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About: FW: CRY THE BELOVED COUNTRY by Paton

Mon, 1 Feb 1999 08:38:33 -0500

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    Subject: CRY THE BELOVED COUNTRY by Paton
    Date: Saturday, January 30, 1999 6:04 PM
    Subject: Re: CRY THE BELOVED COUNTRY by Paton

    Among other things, you may want to consider viewing the two films based on
    the novel, the first directed by Zoltan Korda and released in 1951 starred
    Sidney Poitier and Canada Lee, when the National Party was just at the
    beginning of implementing its policies of apartheid; and the second directed
    by Anant Singh and released in 1995. The US premier of Anant Singh's film
    was witnessed by an audience which included, among others, US First Lady
    Hilary Rodham Clinton, and South African President Nelson Mandela, who
    described the film as "a monument to the future."
    Dean Makuluni
    University of Iowa

    There's also the musical version, LOST IN THE STARS, with a score by Kurt
    Weill.
    Don Larsson

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    Donald Larsson
    Minnesota State U, Mankato
    larsson@Mail.Mankato.MSUS.EDU <mailto:larsson@Mail.Mankato.MSUS.EDU> 

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