An Act of Defiance review – Brilliant account of Bram Fischer

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The film has a potent message to impart, especially in the lead-up to the election in May.

is one of those films that will remain with you long after the images have disappeared from the screen.

Bram Fischer, superbly portrayed by Peter Paul Miller, is the focus of this biopic which delves a little more deeply into this revolutionary Afrikaner man’s life and his politics. If it were not for his heroic fight to save Nelson Mandela and the other plotters from the gallows, history may have taken a very different course.The film wastes little time in getting into the gritty elements of the story.

Those arrested are in dire need of an advocate to defend them, but there are not many takers, except for Bram Fischer. A widely respected legal mind, he also hesitates. He is the dean of the Bar Association, counsel for major mining magnates and scion of a prominent Afrikaans family.

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