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Cry, the Beloved Country was the first major film shot in South Africa, with interiors filmed in the UK at Shepperton Studios. [2] As South Africa was under apartheid, stars Sidney Poitier and Canada Lee and producer/director Zoltan Korda informed the South African immigration authorities that Poitier and Lee were not actors but were Korda's indentured servants.
Absalom Kumalo: Stephen's son who left home to look for Stephen's sister Gertrude and who murdered Arthur Jarvis. His name is an allusion to Absalom, wayward son of the Biblical King David. [5] Gertrude Kumalo: The young sister of Stephen who becomes a prostitute in Johannesburg and leads a dissolute life.
Absalom was the name of Stephen Kumalo's son in the novel. Like the Biblical Absalom, Absalom Kumalo was at odds with his father, the two fighting a moral and ethical battle of sorts over the course of some of the novel's most important events. Absalom kills and murders a man, and also meets an untimely death. [57]
Set in South Africa in October 1946, before the official implementation of apartheid, this is the story of church minister Stephen Kumalo (James Earl Jones) who is requested from his village to Johannesburg. There he discovers that his son Absalom has been arrested for the murder of a white man.
Lost in the Stars is a musical with book and lyrics by Maxwell Anderson and music by Kurt Weill, based on the novel Cry, the Beloved Country (1948) by Alan Paton.The musical premiered on Broadway in 1949; it was the composer's last work for the stage before he died the following year.
Kumalo is a South African surname, sometimes an alternative spelling of Khumalo. Notable people with the surname include: Alf Kumalo (1930–2002), a South African photojournalist; Dumisani Kumalo (1947–2019), a South African diplomat; Basetsana Kumalo (born 1974), a South African television personality, beauty pageant titleholder, and ...
The Indonesian Wikipedia (Indonesian: Wikipedia bahasa Indonesia, WBI for short) is the Indonesian language edition of Wikipedia. It is the fifth-fastest-growing Asian-language Wikipedia after the Japanese, Chinese, Korean, and Turkish language Wikipedias. It ranks 25th in terms of depth among Wikipedias.
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