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As for others still held, Mr Viacorka said: "I dream of the moment my friends and colleagues are released. But I am a realist."

I am a realist committed to democracy and the hard work it takes to protect it.

The idealist in me wanted to believe Jill could be right, but the realist in me wasn’t convinced.

Was this a serious movie, or a gag from “30 Rock”? Leading up to Saturday’s premiere, speculation on social media mounted: Would the film, adapted from Rachel Yoder’s magical realist novel of the same name, finally win Adams an Oscar after six fruitless nominations?

It’s a magical realist fantasy which draws its inspiration from Mozambique’s post-independence civil war, taking the reader through the brutal conflict which raged from 1977 to 1992 when Renamo - then a rebel movement backed by the white-minority regime in South Africa, and Western powers - fought Frelimo.