Lost in the Stars (Blu-ray)

Alan Paton’s world famous novel of racial oppression, Cry the Beloved Country is transformed into a tragic and beautiful film musical unlike any you’ve ever seen. Gilded by Kurt Weill’s (The Threepenny Opera) powerful music and lucid lyrics by Maxwell Anderson, and guided by Daniel Mann’s (Playing for Time) sensitive direction, this one-of-a-kind film is both a heartbreaking indictment of a cruel society and a poetic testament to the millions of forgotten lives ground beneath the heel of apartheid. Brock Peters (To Kill a Mockingbird) is a black South African minister searching the unfamiliar urban alleys and shanty towns of Johannesburg for his missing son.