Cry, the Beloved Country (1995 film) Cry, the Beloved Country (1995 film) Cry, the Beloved Country is a 1995 South African-American drama film directed by Darrell Roodt, based on the novel "Cry, the Beloved Country" by Alan Paton. It stars James Earl Jones and Richard Harris. The film was made in 1995, shortly after the fall of apartheid and the free election of Nelson Mandela as President of South Africa. Set in South Africa in October 1946, before the implementation of apartheid, this is the story of church minister Steven Kumalo who is requested from his village to Johannesburg. There he discovers that his son Absolom
Dearly Beloved (novel) many hued tapestry, almost flawless in projection and performance." Dearly Beloved (novel) Dearly Beloved is a 1962 novel by the American writer Anne Morrow Lindbergh. It takes place during a New England wedding ceremony and consists of the reflections of the wedding guests. The book sold more than 100,000 copies and was on the "New York Times" Best Seller list for nearly 30 weeks. "Kirkus Reviews" wrote: "It is a sensitive—at times a tragic—book, penetrating the depths of men's and women's souls, as line after line of the service is spoken, with its meaning enlarged, heightened by the lives of