• Director(s):

    DESTORS (François-Xavier)

  • Producer(s):

    FRANCE 5, TEMPS NOIR

  • Territories:

    Worldwide.

  • Production year:

    2019

  • Language(s):

    English, French

  • Rights:

    TV, DVD, NON-THEATRICAL, INTERNET, VOD

Mandela’s legend was built on his absence, during his 27 years of incarceration. In 1990, when Nelson Mandela was released, South Africa was waiting for its messiah. He doesn’t know it yet, but he's the world's most famous political prisoner. Will he be up to the challenge?

The film revisits the genesis of a legend first built without the man himself, Mandela serving a 27 years imprisonment at the time. It is the story of a myth without a face, an international struggle against apartheid, popularised by political and pop culture figures all over the world. With a stabbing question: will Mandela be up to it?