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The Other Man: F.W. de Klerk and the End of Apartheid

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South Africa, United States · 2014
1h 15m
Director Nicolas Rossier
Starring
Genre Documentary, History

F.W. de Klerk was the last President of apartheid-era South Africa. In less than four years, he went from being Mandela's jailor to his vice president. Together they changed history for the better, yet little is known about de Klerk. This film explores this complicated figure's fascinating political journey and legacy.

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Village Voice by Ernest Hardy

The film itself is solidly and conventionally crafted. Newsreels and stock footage alternate with fresh interviews with friends and scholars, steadfast supporters and unabashed detractors. The political life it maps out fascinates.

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Variety by Guy Lodge

It’s an opportunity only half seized: Haphazard both as biography and historical survey, the film asks more salient questions than it can answer in a rushed 76 minutes.

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The New York Times by Jeannette Catsoulis

None of this is particularly cinematic (he relies much too heavily on title cards to fill in historical blanks), but it is engaging, mainly because the stakes were so high and the statesmanship so delicate.

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The Hollywood Reporter by John DeFore

Rossier strikes a delicate but credible balance between the former leader's unambiguous statements that he didn't know anything about assassinations and critics' insistence that, even if he didn't specifically give orders, he was "politically and morally responsible."

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