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Forgiven

  • Forgiven
Genre : Drama
Type : Fiction
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Principal country concerned : Column : Cinema/tv
Format : Feature
Running time : 115 (in minutes)

In 1994, at the end of Apartheid, Nelson Mandela appointed Archbishop Desmond Tutu to chair the Truth and Reconciliation Commission: Confession versus Redemption. He is usually met with silence from former torturers. Until the day he is challenged by Piet Blomfield, a murderer serving a life sentence. Desmond Tutu then fights to hold back a country that threatens to be torn apart once again...

A film by Roland Joffé starring Forest Whitaker, Eric Bana, Jeff Gum


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