Soft vengeance (Motion picture : 2014)

Soft vengeance : Albie Sachs and the new South Africa / Ford Foundation ; Ginzberg Productions ; a film by Abby Ginzberg.

Berkeley, CA : Ginzberg Productions, [2014]

©2014.

1 videodisc (approximately 84 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

"A film about Albie Sachs, a lawyer, writer, art lover and freedom fighter, set against the dramatic events leading to the overthrow of the apartheid regime in South Africa. ... Albie defended those committed to ending apartheid in South Africa. For his actions as a lawyer, he was imprisoned in solitary confinement in Cape Town, tortured through sleep deprivation, and forced into exile. In 1988 he was blown up by a car bomb set by the South African security forces in Maputo, Mozambique, which cost him his right arm and the sight of one eye, but miraculously he survived and after a long year of rehabilitation in England, he recovered. Returning to South Africa following the release of Nelson Mandela, Albie helped write the new Constitution and was then appointed as one of the first 11 judges to the new Constitutional Court, which for the past 20 years has been insuring that the rights of all South Africans are afforded protection." -- website.

"TRT 84:00." -- Label.
Narrator, Alfre Woodard; Sol Carvalho, Arthur Chaskalson, Dennis Goldberg.

DVD-R ; NTSC ; all regions.

rsrvs

DVD 526

English

012400.

Producer and director, Abby Ginsberg; writer, Rich Goldsmith; cinematography, Nic Hofmeyer.