About this Event
Awarded: Best Documentary , Joburg Film Festival 2024; Best Pan African Film, Simon Mabhunu Sabela Award 2024. Official selections: New York African Film Festival 2024; Encounters South Africa International Documentary Festival 2024; Mostra de Cinemas Afrikanos 2024; Manifiesta 2024
'I'm thrilled to see this unique story and important movement of our struggle documented on film.' Ronnie Kasrils
'London Recruits risked their lives and their freedom for people of another country. They were as much a part of our struggle as we South Africans were.' Dennis Goldberg, Rivonia Trialist
'A brilliant piece of work. This is a film that must be seen.' Jeremy Corbyn MP, Peace & Justice Project
'A long kept secret that is the perfect story for a film.' Peter Hain
Filmmaker Gordon Main and his team, who made this powerful documentary drama, Oliver Tambo's London Recruits, have organised a 'People's Release' of the film in the UK. Ruskin House Film Screen is pleased to be taking part in this promotion, which by-passes the control exercised by the major film distributors.
This internationally acclaimed film tells the incredible true story of 'ordinary' people who risked everything to keep hope alive. Their extraordinary acts of international solidarity - undertaking important and dangerous work - made a vital contribution to the anti-apartheid struggle at a time of severe repression in 1970s South Africa.
After the trial of Nelson Mandela and other leaders in 1963-64, heavy police surveillance curtailed ANC resistance to the apartheid régime. But white visitors to South Africa could move about freely and carry out secret work. The book, London Recruits (2012), edited by Ken Keable, contains fascinating first-hand accounts by some of the Recruits, which led to the making of this film.
The screening will be followed by a Q&A with an invited speaker
UK | 2024 | 103 mins
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Ruskin House, 23 Coombe Road, Croydon, United Kingdom
GBP 6.13
