An Act of Defiance
- IMDb link: 6002522
- IMDb rating: 7.1 (678 votes) Search
- Genres: Biography
- Director: Jean van de Velde
- Cast: Peter Paul Muller, Antoinette Louw, Jose Domingos, Conrad Kemp and others
- Release date: 1 Mar 2017
- Release year: 2017
- Runtime: 123 minutes
- Country: Netherlands, South Africa
- Keywords: two word title, character name as title, south africa, lawyer, nelson mandela, courtroom, judge, apartheid, secret meeting, accused of being a communist
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In apartheid-ruled South Africa, a renowned lawyer struggles to hide his secret affiliation to the nation's chief resistance movement - as he takes on defending a group of its arrested members, including its leader, Nelson Mandela.
Apartheid is rampant in South Africa, 1963. When ten men are arrested on a farm in Rivonia for conspiring to commit sabotage and violent acts against the repressive S. African government, tenacious lawyer Bram Fisher steps up to the challenge as lead counsel. He soon finds that political leader Nelson Mandela is also on trial. Mandela urges his fellow defendants to plead not guilty and shine light on the systemic corruption against the African people. As the outcome of the trial looks bleak, Mandela gives his famous "I'm Prepared to Die" speech, discussing how the ANC's resistance is justified. But will Mandela's impassioned speech save these men's lives?
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