

THE STATE AGAINST MANDELA AND THE OTHERS
by Nicolas Champeaux and Gilles Porte
FRANCE | 2018 | DOCUMENTARY | ENGLISH | 105'
52' TV VERSION ALSO AVAILABLE

SYNOPSIS
2018 marks the centenary of Nelson Mandela’s birth.
He seized centre stage during a historic trial in 1963 and 1964.But there were eight others who, like him, faced the death sentence. They too were subjected to pitiless cross-examinations. To a man they stood firm and turned the tables on the state: South Africa's apartheid regime was in the dock.
Recently recovered archival recordings of those hearings transport us back into the thick of the courtroom battles.
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