Alan Paton, Cry the Beloved Country

I am going to write about the film which was shot according to the book Cry, the beloved country written by Alan Paton. Paton wrote this book from his deep concern with the racial problem in South Africa. This film was shot in the early sixties and even though there were already made colored films, this one is black and white as the whole issue of apartheid between blacks and whites, which is the subject of many books and films.
This film is very similar to the book and the script is nearly completely the same. Every character says exactly the same words as those in the book. In the beginning of the film there is the sight of the landscape of Ndotsehni and the words of how the land is destroyed because of the bad treatment with the land. This tells about the bad situation in South Africa. The action is based on the story of Stephen Kumalo, the black priest of Ndotsehni.
One day Kumalo rece...