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Overview

User Rating:
6.0/10   1,370 votes
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Director:
Writers (WGA):
Antjie Krog (book)
Ann Peacock (screenplay)
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Release Date:
7 May 2004 (Italy) more
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Tagline:
A South African Story of Truth, Love and Reconcilliation
Plot:
Langston Whitfield is a Washington Post journalist. His editor provocatively sends him to South Africa... more | add synopsis
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2 nominations more
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Cast

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Samuel L. Jackson ... Langston Whitfield

Juliette Binoche ... Anna Malan

Brendan Gleeson ... De Jager
Menzi Ngubane ... Dumi Mkhalipi (as Menzi 'Ngubs' Ngubane)
Sam Ngakane ... Anderson
Aletta Bezuidenhout ... Elsa
Lionel Newton ... Edward Morgan

Langley Kirkwood ... Boetie
Owen Sejake ... Reverend Mzondo
Harriet Lenabe ... Albertina Sobandia (as Harriet Manamela)
Louis Van Niekerk ... Willem Malan
Jeremiah Ndlovu ... Old Man in Wheelbarrow
Fiona Ramsey ... Felicia Rheinhardt (as Fiona Ramsay)

Dan Robbertse ... De Smidt (as Daniel Robbertse)

Robert Hobbs ... Van Deventer
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Guilt, Sorrow, and the Limits of Forgiveness in the New South Africa (UK) (working title)
In My Country (USA)
Truth (UK) (working title)
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Rated R for language, including descriptions of atrocities, and for a scene of violence.
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105 min
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Nelson Mandela: Never, never, and never again shall it be that this beautiful land will again experience the oppression of one by another.
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1 out of 1 people found the following comment useful.
Ubuntu, the power of compassion, 12 October 2006
8/10
Author: bernhardzils from Belgium

Why 8 stars ? John Boorman has made more "cinematographically" significant movies, in terms of artistic creation, but the grandness of a nations people shown in this movie dealing with its terrible wounds, is a great lesson in humanity.

This movie just reached Belgium. It was never shown in our theaters, it was released as a DVD. I really would have loved to discover this picture in a theater. John Boorman conveys the magnificence of this country and its people, thus giving us breath enough to bear the unbearable. The rather sober way of acting leaves room for our own emotions.

Thank you, Mr. Boorman !

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