Soweto (South Africa) (AFP) - South Africans flocked to cinemas on Thursday to watch the first screenings of the hotly-anticipated Nelson Mandela biopic in a country still battling to exorcise its dark past. Viewers of the two-and-a-half hour "Long Walk to Freedom" tracing Mandela's life from childhood to his landmark 1994 election said the film gave them a better insight into South Africa's past, but it was also an emotional rollercoaster. "I don't know how to express myself," said a visibly overwhelmed Mapulane Tsilo, 39, who cried throughout the screening she attended in a former bedrock of anti-apartheid activism, Soweto. The film based on Mandela's autobiography of the same name was simultaneously launched in over 100 cinemas across South Africa following a major advertising campaign.
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