Even those familiar with the history will be impressed and moved to see these events as Mandela experienced them, before the Nobel Prize and universal adulation recast the past in a glow of inevitability.
Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom
It is an ideal for which I am prepared to die.
2013 · 2h 21m · PG-13
Drama, History
Directed by
Justin Chadwick
Overview
A chronicle of Nelson Mandela's life journey from his childhood in a rural village through to his inauguration as the first democratically elected president of South Africa.
Director and cast
- Justin Chadwick Director
- Idris Elba as Nelson Mandela
- Naomie Harris as Winnie Madikizela
- Tony Kgoroge as Walter Sisulu
- Riaad Moosa as Ahmed Kathrada
- Fana Mokoena as Govan Mbeki
- Robert Hobbs as Cheif Warder
- Jamie Bartlett as James Gregory
- Lindiwe Matshikiza as Zindzi Mandela
- Terry Pheto as Evelyn Mase
- Deon Lotz as Kobie Coetzee
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
Nelson Mandela gets the Classics Illustrated treatment with this handsome, undemanding biopic.
The life of Nelson Mandela is simply too big, too complex and too important to be contained in one movie.
Elba has long been better than the film roles he's been offered, a tradition that continues with his leading role here.
You keep wishing, as "Mandela" plays out, that this were more than one movie.
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