Film On Mandela's Life Premieres In South Africa.

The long-awaited film on the life of anti-apartheid hero Nelson Mandela has been premiered in his native South Africa.The movie  stirred emotional memories of the country's turbulent history.
The movie Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom, largely based on his autobiography of the same title, traces the life of the revered leader from his childhood in the rural Eastern Cape to his election as the country's first black president in 1994.e 95-year-old Mandela was too frail to attend the premiere as he is under medical care at home after having spent three months in hospital in a critical condition with a lung infection earlier this year.
His ex-wife Winnie Madikizela-Mandela said in remarks before the screening that she had "no words" to describe the film's "translation of that painful past".
Mandela is played by British actor Idris Elba, 41, and his ex-wife Winnie by Naomie Harris, also of Britain.

"This story is so much bigger than me, bigger than anyone of us," said Elba, who made it just in time for the premiere having missed his earlier flight from London after suffering an asthmatic attack.
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