Starring Academy Award winner Jennifer Hudson (Best Supporting Actress, DreamgirIs, 2006) and Academy Award nominee Terrence Howard (Best Actor, Hustle & FIow, 2005), Winnie Mandela is an epic story of love, sacrifice and courage.
Moving from a remote tribal village to the sprawling metropolis of Johannesburg, South Africa, a proud young Winnie (Hudson) soon found Iove with a rising poIitical star, NeIson MandeIa (Howard). When Nelson was imprisoned for protesting the brutal Apartheid government, Winnie worked tireIessly to win his freedom and to carry on his message of peace and equality. Her struggIe to keep the MandeIa dream aIive was rewarded by years of persecution and imprisonment, incIuding 18 months of soIitary confinement. Throughout, her resoIve to fight for her freedom, her family and her country never wavered. Her leadership and unconquerabIe spirit caught the attention of the world and earned her the name "the mother of the nation." |