MANDELA: LONG WALK TO FREEDOM opens in select theaters on FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 29th
Nationwide on WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 25th
**For interview interest with Idris Elba, Naomie Harris, Justin Chadwick (director) and Anant Singh (producer), please contact Heather Secrist, Heather.Secrist@weinsteinco.com **
PRESS SCREENINGS:
Thursday, November 21st at 6pm in Magno Screening Room
Monday, November 25th at 6pm in Dolby 24
Magno Screening Room – 729 Seventh Avenue (b/t 48th and 49th Streets)
Dolby 24 – 1350 Avenue of the Americas, 28th Floor
PLEASE RSVP TO:
Heather Secrist | heather.secrist@weinsteinco.com
Based on the 1994 autobiography of the same name, MANDELA: LONG WALK TO FREEDOM chronicles the inspirational life of Nelson Mandela as an international icon and one of the world’s most revered leaders. Directed by Justin Chadwick (THE FIRST GRADER, THE OTHER BOLEYN GIRL) and adapted by Academy Award® nominated screenwriter William Nicholson (SHADOWLANDS, GLADIATOR, LES MISERABLES), the film spans Mandela’s exceptional life journey from his early years as a herd boy in South Africa’s rural Cape region, to his days as a lawyer and Apartheid resistance leader, and on to his twenty-seven years spent in Robben Island prison before becoming the nation’s first democratically elected President. Acclaimed actor Idris Elba (THE WIRE, LUTHER, PROMETHEUS, PACIFIC RIM, THOR) stars, with Naomie Harris (THE FIRST GRADER, SKYFALL) playing the role of his wife Winnie Mandela, with whom he shared a passionate and troubled love affair that endured over decades. A stellar South African supporting cast is headlined by Tony Kgoroge (INVICTUS), Riaad Moosa(MATERIAL), Fana Mokoena (World War Z, Machine Gun Preacher), Jamie Bartlett (Beyond Borders), Deon Lotz (SKOONHEID, SLEEPER’S WAKE), Simo Mogwaza (DISTRICT 9), Terry Pheto (TSOTSI), Thapelo Mokoena (NOTHING FOR MAHALA), and Praise Singer and Poet of the Nation, Zolani Mkiva.
Directed by Justin Chadwick
Written by William Nicholson
Produced by Anant Singh
Runtime: 146 minutes
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