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Sun 27 Apr 2025
Comrade Tambo's London Recruits
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Hyde Park Picture House

There will be a live Q&A with director Gordon Main and one of the London Recruits after this screening.

"Winner of Best Documentary at the Johannesburg Film Festival 2024 COMRADE TAMBO'S LONDON RECRUITS unfolds, after decades of secrecy, a nail biting journey of espionage with those who risked it all in taking on one of the 20th century’s most feared and brutal regimes.

By the late 1960s, the Apartheid regime in South Africa had reached brutal new heights. NelsonMandela and other freedom fighters had been imprisoned, killed or forced into exile. TheAfrican National Congress (ANC) was outlawed and broken, from the leadership through to the township cells. In efforts to reinvigorate support for the liberation struggle, exiled ANC leader Oliver Tambo lit the fuse on a plan that saw young British women and men undertake missions on the ground in South Africa disguised as honeymooners, holiday makers and business trippers.

The film features interviews from surviving ‘London Recruits’ and freedom fighters who recount their courageous and intriguing stories of espionage and danger to create, what Variety called 'an edge of your seat thriller’ with ‘jaw dropping twists’.

Cert: 12A

Run Time: 1hr 50mins

    Date
    Sun 27 Apr 2025
    Show all dates/times
    Sun 27 Apr 2025
    14:15:00

    Ticket price

    £
    8.50
    £
    10.50
    Box Office
    0113 275 2045
    Accessibility
    Baby changing facilities
    Buggy friendly
    Wheelchair access

    Hyde Park Picture House

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