Lost in the Stars

Alan Paton's world-famous novel about racial oppression, Cry the Beloved Country, becomes a tragic, poetic, musical testament to the millions of forgotten lives ground under apartheid's heel. Brock Peters plays Stephen Kumalo, a black South African minister searching for his son, Absalom, in Johannesburg's back alleys and shantytowns. But Kumalo's unwavering faith is tested when he finds Absalom in jail, facing a capital murder charge.