Passages is now playing in cinemas nationwide. Some people are never content in any relationship they enter but are equally unable to
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Cry, the Beloved Country (1951)
Cry, the Beloved Country arrives on Blu-ray, DVD and digital on October 9 under the StudioCanal Vintage Classics label. In adapting Alan Paton’s classic novel, published in 1948 on the eve of apartheid, Zoltan Korda’s powerful, beautiful and political 1951 film is wrapped by beginnings and endings. Cry, the Beloved Country was to be Canada Lee’s final film and one of Sidney Poitier’s first. It was also Korda’s penultimate film after a career of British imperialist adventures in the director’s chair and his first challenge to themes of colonialism and oppression. It was, equally, the first major British motion picture
