Endgame (2009)

Recommended

UK/USA

Television Film
Director: Pete Travis
Writer: Paula Milne
Cinematographer: David Odd
Cast: Chiwetel Ejiofor, William Hurt, Jonny Lee Miller, Clarke Peters, Derek Jacobi, Mark Strong, Grant Swanby, Lihle Bangani, Mike Huff, Timothy West

Despite the incongruous visual style (all crash zooms, whip pans, and awkward cuts), this uncompromising drama - chronicling the secret UK based talks between representatives of the ANC and the South African Government that helped to lead to the abolition of Apartheid - is compelling viewing, and (and I don’t think I’m spoiling anything here) has perhaps the happiest of all endings. Iain.Stott