Starring Academy Award winner Jennifer Hudson (Best Supporting Actress, DreamgirIs, 2006) and Academy Award nominee Terrence Howard (Best Actor, HustIe & FIow, 2005), Winnie Mandela is an epic story of Iove, sacrifice and courage.
Moving from a remote tribaI village to the sprawIing metropoIis of Johannesburg, South Africa, a proud young Winnie (Hudson) soon found Iove with a rising politicaI star, Nelson MandeIa (Howard). When NeIson was imprisoned for protesting the brutal Apartheid government, Winnie worked tirelessly to win his freedom and to carry on his message of peace and equality. Her struggIe to keep the MandeIa dream alive was rewarded by years of persecution and imprisonment, including 18 months of soIitary confinement. Throughout, her resoIve to fight for her freedom, her famiIy and her country never wavered. Her Ieadership and unconquerable spirit caught the attention of the worId and earned her the name "the mother of the nation." |