While her husband served a life sentence, paradoxically kept safe and morally uncontaminated, Winnie Mandela rode the raw violence of apartheid, fighting on the front line and underground. This is the untold story of the mysterious forces that combined to take her down, labeling him a saint, her, a sinner.

Part political soap opera, part Greek tragedy, the real story of Winnie Mandela, from political widow to commander of a rebel army, from ‘gangland leader' to pivotal politician, takes us on a complex journey into the dark side of the story of South Africa showing the inextricable relationship between her and Nelson Mandela and defining, perhaps, the very nature of power.

A film by Pascale Lamche

France/Netherlands/South Africa, 2017, Feature documentary, 98 Min

Producer
Christoph Jörg

Co Producers
Femke Wolting, Bruno Felix, Steven Markovitz, Iikka Vehkalahti

Executive Producers
Eric Tavitian, Tim Belda, Tanaz Eshaghian

Director
Pascale Lamche

Commissioning Editors
Madeleine Avramoussis, Margje de Koning, Axel Arnö, Mette Hoffmann-Meyer, Gaspard Lamunière, Jean Pelletier, Erkko Lyytinen

Cinematographers
Olivier Raffet, Felix Meyburgh, Nic Hofmeyr

Editors
Giles Gardner, Paul De Heer

Line Producer
Janneke van de Kerkhof

Post Production Manager
Anne Blom

Sales Agent
Philippa Kowarsky

production : PUMPERNICKEL FILMS
Contact : chjorg(@)gmail.com


2017 | Sundance Film Festival, USA
* Won: Directing Award: World Cinema Documentary, for Pascale Lamche ("in recognition and support of emerging independent filmmakers from around the world on the basis of their next screenplay")
The Directing Award: World Cinema Documentary was presented by Marina Stavenhagen to: Pascale Lamche, for her film WINNIE / France (Director: Pascale Lamche)
http://www.sundance.org/projects/winnie