Af: Darrell Rodt, USA, Sydafrika, 1995
This moving 1995 adaptation of Alan Paton's celebrated novel stars James Earl Jones as a beloved, rural minister in South Africa who makes his first trip to Johannesburg in search of his son. The latter's destiny has been linked with that of a doomed, young white man, whose racist father (Richard Harris) is approached by Jones's character in the spirit of mutual understanding. Directed by Darrell James Roodt (Sarafina!), the film is most powerful in those scenes featuring Harris and Jones together, though early sequences grounded in the hard life and times of Jones's community are colorful and dramatic. It's impossible not to be touched by the cautious but real connection made between the principal characters and by the moral authenticity of the actors. --Tom Keogh
Et rørende drama baseret på Alan Patons bog. James Earl Jones spiller den en præst fra en lille landsby, som i 1946 tager til Johannesburg for at find sin søn. Den rige landejer Jarvis (Richard Harris) tager ligeledes til storbyen for at hente liget af sin døde søn. God præstationer af James Earl Jones og Richard Harris.