Screenplay: Alan Paton

Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Alan Paton. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.


Cry, the Beloved Country

1995 · Movie · 108 min. · South Africa

6.0

257 votes

6.0

257 votes

Cry The Beloved Country

1951 · Movie · 103 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Zoltan Korda

Cast Canada Lee · Charles Carson · Sidney Poitier · Joyce Carey

Plot In the back country of South Africa ruled by the Afrikáans, black minister Stephen Kumalo (Canada Lee) journeys to the city to search for his missing son, only to find...

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Lost in the Stars

1974 · Movie · 97 min. · United States

Direction Daniel Mann

Cast Brock Peters · Melba Moore · Clifton Davis · Raymond St. Jacques

Plot Stephen Kumalo is a black Zulu minister searching the unfamiliar back alleys and shantytowns of Johannesburg for his long-missing son, Absalom.

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