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Christiane Amanpour recommended Cry, the Beloved Country in Books (curated)

Cry, the Beloved Country

Alan Paton | 2003 | Fiction & Poetry

4.7

(3 Ratings)

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"The story of a Zulu pastor and his son, set amid the horror of apartheid South Africa. It’s the tragic yet redemptive tale of human dignity, a beautifully woven story of that time. It was written in 1948, and I read it when I was at university in the early 1980s, when South Africa was the big moral story of the time. I longed to be a foreign correspondent and get out there. I also read, and wept through many performances of South African playwright Athol Fugard’s plays. But the images from this book stay with me, as does its amazing title."

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Josh Radnor recommended The Lives Of Others (2007) in Movies (curated)

The Lives Of Others (2007)

2007 | International, Drama

9.0

(2 Ratings)

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"Do I get pretentious? Because this is foreign. {laughs] I love that German film from a few years ago that won the Oscar, The Lives of Others. Such a great movie. I’ve seen it a bunch, and I own it. I love, love, love that movie, and I found that it was just intensely riveting and scary and beautiful and so well crafted, so well plotted as a movie. And such a sad comment on a time in a certain country, but also a really beautiful comment on people being altered and finding their humanity again. I thought that movie was really special."

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