Beautiful, interesting, incredible cinema.

See what’s playing
The Color of Freedom
  • Try 7 Days Free
  • Now Showing
  • MUBI GO
  • Gift MUBI
  • Film Database
  • Notebook
  • Notebook Magazine
  • MUBI Editions
  • SHOP
  • About
  • Ways to Watch
  • Students
  • Jobs
  • Terms & Privacy
5.6
/10
112 Ratings

THE COLOR OF FREEDOM

Goodbye Bafana

Directed by Bille August
Belgium, Germany, 2007
Drama
  • 117117 minutes

Synopsis

South Africa, 1986. Twenty-five million Blacks are ruled by a minority of four million whites under the brutal Apartheid regime. James Gregory, a typical Afrikaner, regards Blacks as sub-human. This makes him an ideal choice to become the warder in charge of Nelson Mandela on Robben Island.

Synopsis

South Africa, 1986. Twenty-five million Blacks are ruled by a minority of four million whites under the brutal Apartheid regime. James Gregory, a typical Afrikaner, regards Blacks as sub-human. This makes him an ideal choice to become the warder in charge of Nelson Mandela on Robben Island.