Details

Release year: 2004

Storyline

A journalist and a poetess meet during the hearings of South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission.

Top credits

Directors

John Boorman

Writers

Cast

Juliette Binoche — Anna Malan
Samuel L. Jackson — Langston Whitfield
Brendan Gleeson — Col. de Jager
Menzi Ngubane — Dumi Mkhalipi

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Did you know

• After seeing this film Nelson Mandela called it, "a beautiful and important film about South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission. It will engage and influence not only South Africans, but people all over the world concerned with the great questions of human reconciliation, forgiveness, and tolerance."

• The term "make a plan" used by Sergeant Dreyer (Greg Latter) is a common one among South Africans. It usually has a positive meaning of being willing and capable of finding a way to resolve something, but here it is used as a euphemism for killing someone.

• John Boorman and Brendan Gleeson previously collaborated in The Tailor of Panama (2001) and The General (1998).

Box Office

Gross (Domestic): $163,893

Opening Weekend (Domestic): $22,383 (2005-03-13)

User reviews

⭐ 7/10

While not as powerful as "Hotel Rwanda," John Boorman's look at the relationship between whites and blacks in post-Apartheid South Africa is compelling nonetheless!

👍 13 · 6/4/2005

⭐ 7/10

Reconciliation

👍 14 · 3/29/2006

⭐ 5/10

A dark drama about murders and torture perpetuated during Apartheid in South Africa.

👍 3 · 7/19/2006