A black majority government, said Ian Smith 'would be a disaster for Rhodesia '. Well, would it? The team, who two years ago made Portrait of a ' Terrorist ', a film about Robert Mugabe as a guerrilla leader in exile, went to Salisbury to make this film about him now that he is Prime Minister of Zimbabwe. They were given a unique opportunity to film him at home, in Cabinet, in Parliament and on his only visit so far to one of the troubled Assembly Points. This man, who a year ago was feared as a Marxist terrorist, is now regarded as a moderate statesman upon whom the vast majority of black and white Zimbabweans desperately pin their hopes for the future.
Reporter Nick Ross
Film cameraman PHILIP BONHAM CARTER Film recordist GEOFF TOOKEY Film editor TONY HEAVEN
Producer JENNY BARRACLOUGH