Country:South Africa, United Kingdom

Director:Zoltan Korda

Program:The Lineage of Parallel Cinema

Summary:

Alan Paton provided a screenplay from his own classic novel concerning minister Stephen Kumalo’s journey to the city to search for his missing son, only to find his people living in squalor and his son a criminal. Reverend Misimangu is a young South African clergyman who helps find his missing son-turned-thief and sister-turned-prostitute in the slums of Johannesburg. By this time the country was ruled by strict apartheid laws, so stars Sidney Potier and Canada Lee and director Zoltan Korda devised a scheme for the actors to pose as Korda's indentured servants; otherwise, the two black actors and the white director would not have been allowed to associate with each other while they were in the country much less shoot a movie.