Watch: Explosive First Trailer for ‘Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom’ Starring Idris Elba

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Mandela Long Walk to Freedom, Idris Elba

Idris Elba in ‘Mandela Long Walk to Freedom’

“He was public enemy #1. Hunted by the police. Feared by the government. Revolutionary. Outlaw. Rebel. Fighter. Radical. Liberator,” reads the first official trailer for the highly-anticipated Nelson Mandela biopic, Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom .

Based on Mandela’s 1994 autobiography, the Justin Chadwick -directed film, which stars Idris Elba , depicts the world leader’s journey from resilient anti-apartheid revolutionary to prisoner to South African president.

“Freedom, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die.”

The trailer for the film gives us just a glimpse of the passion between Mandela and his second wife, social worker Winnie Madikizela ( Naomie Harris ), the profound violence and tension in South Africa, his unjust imprisonment for 27 years, and his election years later.

Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom , which will makes its world premiere at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival , hits theaters November 29. Enjoy the trailer below.

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