Cry Freedom
- PG
- Year:
- 1987
- 157 min
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CRY FREEDOM:
BASED ON 'BIKO' AND 'ASKING FOR TROUBLE'
BY DONALD WOODS:
- Subtitle -
Completely fixed: titler
What is it?
What is it?
No!
This is the English-language
service of Radio South Africa.
Here is the news,
read by Magnus Randall.
Police raided Crossroads, the illegal
township near Cape Town this morning,
after warning the squatters to vacate
the area in the interests of public health.
Several people were found
without work permits,
and many are being sent back
to their respective homelands.
There was no resistance to
the raid and many illegals
voluntarily presented
themselves to the police.
- I think you ought to have a look at him.
- Give me his chart.
Were you listening
to the radio?
If they'd caught him,
we'd have heard.
If the police had got Steve, especially with
the posters in the car and everything,...
...you don't think that...?
Is that mine, Sister?
You don't think that'd
be the first news item?
No, because if the people
know they have him,
then they have to be more careful
about how they treat him.
- They think he's here.
- I must get back.
Let's have some coffee.
If the police in Cape Town had taken him,
that lot would be the first to know.
I think he's hiding.
He was with Peter Jones,
and Peter has no pass problem.
If Steve was arrested,
Pass the milk.
Finished, Mr. Woods?
Yes, thanks.
- How'd you get these?
- Ah, we have ways.
- Do we dare to print them?
- For these I'll risk it.
- Yes, sir?
- Would you ask Tony to come in?
- I'll even give you a by-line.
- You're a prince.
They put me away, yours'll be the first
name on my lips. What about Mr. Biko?
Shall I use his name in the story?
His picture was everywhere.
- There must have been one recently.
Biko couldn't have been
there of course, but,
one of his people, mouthing off
about black consciousness,...
- ... that I'd say was almost a certainty.
- Uh, I've rejigged it just a bit.
No, leave him out of it.
I want the police blamed for that raid.
- I'll take care of Biko in an editorial.
- Yeah, yeah. Ok.
white supremacy justifies anything,
all we need is some black nutcase saying
black supremacy's going to save the world.
I would like to know who's
responsible for this.
- May I ask who you are?
- Doctor Ramphele.
Doctor Ramphele.
I'll leave you.
I've read this paper long enough to
know you're not one of the worst,
so, it's all the more baffling,
that you would try to pass this
vicious fiction off as reasoned fact.
- Ah, well, Doctor...
- Ramphele.
Ramphele.
I've stuck my neck out on this paper to
take a stand against white prejudice.
But if you think that
means I'll go soft,
on some sensationalist
pushing black prejudice,
well, you've brought your
complaint to the wrong man.
Black prejudice?
That's not what
Steve's about at all.
Your Mr. Biko is building a wall of
black hatred in South Africa,...
...and I will fight him as
long as I sit in this chair.
What you do in that chair
is put words in his mouth.
And you know he can't answer
because he's banned.
- I believe I know what Mr. Biko is about.
- Well, you believe wrong!
And he can't come to you.
If you were the honest newsman you
claim to be, you ought to go and see him.
Look...
Where are you from?
From South Africa.
But I was one of two,
to be granted a scholarship
I'm a...
...a token of your white
paternalistic concern,
for the natives of this land.
Well, I'm glad we didn't
waste our money.
I know you're not a fool,
Mr. Woods...
But you are uninformed.
Steve Biko is one of the few people
who can still save South Africa.
He's in King William's
Town right now.
That's his banning area.
- Good morning.
- Good morning.
LEOPOLD STREET,
KING WILLIAM'S TOWN
- Mr. Donald Woods?
- Yes, I'm Donald Woods.
I'm Steve's wife. Please, come in.
He's expecting you.
Thank you.
But we're glad
you could come.
Father Russell got this for us.
You see, we're trying to make
a kind of community centre,
maybe have classes.
- The new dyes have arrived at last.
- Good, tell Tsinki.
- This way.
- Who's this one?
Oh, he's just a little
rascal like his father,
and even more trouble.
You'll find him out there.
Steve Biko?
- Are you Steve Biko?
- I am.
I would have met you
in the church, but,
as you know, I can only be
with one person at a time.
You see, if a third person comes
into the room, even to bring coffee,
that breaks the ban.
And the system, the police,
are just across the road.
But, of course, you would
approve of my banning.
No, I think your ideas are dangerous,
but, no, I don't approve of banning.
A true liberal.
It's not a title
I'm ashamed of,
though I know you regard
it with some contempt.
I just think that
a white liberal,...
...who clings to all the advantages
of his white world; jobs,
housing, education...
Mercedes...
...is perhaps not best qualified to tell
blacks how they should react to apartheid.
I wonder what sort of liberal
you'd make, Mr. Biko,
if you were the one who had the job,
the house and the Mercedes,
and the whites
lived in townships.
It's a charming idea.
It was good of you
to come, Mr. Woods.
I've wanted to meet
you for a long time.
They follow you everywhere?
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