A film -- the first film -- from the democratic South Africa. And as such, a rather tardy adaptation of the Alan Paton novel, particularly when held up against Zoltan Korda's 1951 version. It recounts, in between outright sermons, the "bitter journey" of a rural black clergyman to Johannesburg, where his son has turned robber and murderer. Bitter journey indeed, and slow, slow, exasperatingly slow. And solemn. With James Earl Jones and Richard Harris; directed by Darrell James Roodt. (1995) — Duncan Shepherd
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