• 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' incarceration. In 1990, when Nelson Mandela was released, South Africa was waiting for its messiah. He didn't know it then, but he was about to become the world's most famous political prisoner. Was he up to the challenge?

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