In 1962, at the height of oppression in apartheid South Africa, a gay white theatre director named Cecil Williams was arrested with Nelson Mandela. The world knows what happened to Nelson Mandela – but who is Cecil Williams?
Driving a gleaming Austin Westminster, Mandela was able to travel around the country by disguising himself as a chauffeur for an elegant, impeccably dressed white man. That man, Cecil Williams, was a leading Johannesburg theater director and a committed anti-apartheid freedom fighter. Starring Corin Redgrave in a tour de force one man show, the film seamlessly moves from stunning archive footage and home movies to personal testimony from resistance activists to hilarious tales of secret gay life in apartheid South Africa. The Man who Drove with Mandela tells the story of the personal and political bravery of a forgotten hero.
