Goodbye Bafana, also released under the name The Color of Freedom, is a 2007 drama film about the relationship between Nelson Mandela (Dennis Haysbert) and James Gregory (Joseph Fiennes), his censor officer and prison guard, based on the book Goodbye Bafana: Nelson Mandela, My Prisoner, My Friend by James Gregory. Bafana is the name of the Gregory's black childhood friend.
Filming took place in the second half of 2006 in South Africa with Danish ...
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Goodbye Bafana, also released under the name The Color of Freedom, is a 2007 drama film about the relationship between Nelson Mandela (Dennis Haysbert) and James Gregory (Joseph Fiennes), his censor officer and prison guard, based on the book Goodbye Bafana: Nelson Mandela, My Prisoner, My Friend by James Gregory. Bafana is the name of the Gregory's black childhood friend.
Filming took place in the second half of 2006 in South Africa with Danish director Bille August. Nelson Mandela is played by Dennis Haysbert, James Gregory is played by Joseph Fiennes, and his wife by Diane Kruger.
On January 4, 2007, it was announced that the film would be in the main competition at the 2007 Berlinale, the international film festival in Berlin. The world premiere took place on the festival on February 11, 2007.
The book was derided by Mandela's longtime friend, the late Anthony Sampson. In Sampson's book Mandela: the Authorised Biography he accused James Gregory, who died of cancer in 2003, of...
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