Word: lawyer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Bewildered by the deaths Sutherland who teaches Afrikaaner history to schoolboys, begins looking into the incidents. Soon convinced the two were murdered by the South African secret police, he seeks help from a liberal lawyer named Ian McKenzie played by Marlon Brando. (Yes Brando...
After explaining his case to the portly lawyer, Sutherland tells Brando that he only wants "justice" through...
...midway through the film. Moving effortlessly from angle to angle she builds a brilliant encounter between Brando and Jurgen Prochnow, who plays Captain Stolz of the secret police. Palcy delivers a particularly effective shot of Brando after the judge announces his verdict. While commotion breaks out around the defeated lawyer, he sits immobile, quietly mumbling "fuck" over and over again...
...entirely isolated in his struggle. His young son stands by him. So do a scrappy journalist (Susan Sarandon in an underdeveloped role) and a weary, canny lawyer, played by Marlon Brando. In his first movie role in eight years, Brando is shockingly bloated in appearance, but his full authority as an actor is mobilized by a part in which he obviously believes (he was paid union scale...
...kissing the ground and proclaiming a "spirit of peace, love and national reconciliation." But the homecoming of Sam Nujoma, leader of the South West Africa People's Organization, was overshadowed last week by old hatreds and death. Two days before Nujoma's arrival, Anton Lubowski, a Namibian-born lawyer and a prominent white SWAPO activist, was gunned down outside his home in Windhoek. Within 36 hours police announced that they were holding a white man in connection with the killing...