SOFT VENGEANCE: Albie Sachs and the New South Africa
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SOFT VENGEANCE: Albie Sachs and the New South Africa

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WINNER - Peabody Award | "A Stunning Documentary" - NPR African Studies • Reconciliation • Human Rights • Comparative Government Date of Completion: 2014 | Run Time: 60 mins & 84 mins​​ | Language: English | Captions: Yes | Includes: Transcript & Study Guide | Director: Abby Ginzberg | Producers: Abby Ginzberg & Ken Schneider SOFT VENGEANCE is a Peabody award-winning film about Albie Sachs, a lawyer, writer, art lover and freedom fighter, set against the dramatic events leading to the overthrow of the apartheid regime in South Africa. As a young man, Albie defended those committed to ending apartheid in South Africa. For his actions as a lawyer, he was imprisoned in solitary confinement in Cape Town, tortured through sleep deprivation and forced into exile. In 1988 he was blown up by a car bomb set by the South African security forces in Maputo, Mozambique, which cost him his right arm and the sight of one eye, but miraculously he survived and after a long year of rehabilit

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