The Colossus

Cast: Rachel Weisz, Ian McKellen, Susan Sarandon, Colin Firth

Release date: 2007

Synopsis:

Based on Ann Harries' novel "Manly Pursuits." A fictionalized version of real events, story concerns an ornithologist hired to transport English songbirds to the recently deposed South African prime minister. He falls in love with a firebrand political activist and becomes entangled in a plot to stop the imminent Boer War.

Rachel Weisz, Ian McKellen Join 'The Colossus'
Rachel Weisz, Ian McKellen and Susan Sarandon have joined Colin Firth in a colonial drama The Colossus , according to Variety. The movie is set in South Africa at the turn of the 20th century, to be directed by Sean...