Balogun's most political film is a confrontation with the African wars of liberation. Based on Carcase for Hounds, Meja Mwangi's novel about the Mau-Mau uprising, it is set in an unnamed country and thus offers the vision of a pan-African struggle for freedom and against colonial oppression. The central figures in the straightforwardly and powerfully told story are the guerrilla leader Haraka and his adversary, the English colonial official Kingsley. In the end, the film becomes a homage to the freedom fighters from all over Africa: the final images show Patrice Lumumba, Steve Biko, Nelson Mandela and Amílcar Cabral, among others.
Cry Freedom has generally received very positive reviews.
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Cry Freedom was released in 1981 and has generally received very positive reviews.
Online reviewers have written 199 reviews, giving Cry Freedom (1981) an average rating of 79%.
Overall, cinema-goers prefer the movie, giving it an average score of 87%, compared to film critics, who gave it a lower average score of 69%. Amateur reviewers were more impressed with Cry Freedom than critics were.
With a score of 79%, Cry Freedom is above the average Cinafilm score for movies made in 1981, which stands at 60%.
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