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Released
1951 · FILM

Cry, the Beloved Country

Filmed in Africa...Where It Was Lived!

Directed by
Runtime
103 min
Drama

Synopsis

In the back country of South Africa, black minister Stephen Kumalo journeys 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.

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Principal cast & crew: 16

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

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This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by David EadyShot by Robert KraskerScored by Raymond Gallois Montbrun

Also known as

  • Denn sie sollen getröstet werdende
  • Tierra prometidaes
  • Pleure, ô pays bien-aiméfr
  • Piangi mio amato paeseit

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