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 BERLIN (AP) - Oscar-winning director Bille August has brought the memoirs of one of Nelson Mandela's jailers to the screen, with Dennis Haysbert playing the famous prisoner — a part that he said regularly left him in tears.
"Goodbye Bafana," which stars Joseph Fiennes as prison guard James Gregory, premiered Sunday at the Berlin film festival, where it is competing for the top Golden Bear award.
Gregory, who said he built up a friendship with Mandela over 17 years, worked at Robben Island prison in the office that handled prisoners' mail and sat in on visits. He was accomplished in Mandela's Xhosa language.
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