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In My Country is a 2004 drama film directed by John Boorman, and starring Samuel L. Jackson and Juliette Binoche. It is centred around the story of Afrikaner poet Anna Malan (Binoche) and an American journalist, Langston Whitfield (Jackson), sent to South Africa to report about the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission ...
May 7, 2004 · In My Country: Directed by John Boorman. With Samuel L. Jackson, Juliette Binoche, Brendan Gleeson, Menzi Ngubane. A journalist and a poetess meet during the hearings of South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
Mar 31, 2005 · In the final decades of apartheid in South Africa, few observers thought power would change hands in the country without a bloody war. But white rule gave way peacefully to the Nelson Mandela government, and Mandela and F.W. de Klerk, the departing prime minister, shared the Nobel Peace Prize.
In My Country is a 2004 drama film directed by John Boorman, and starring Samuel L. Jackson and Juliette Binoche. It is centred around the story of Afrikaner poet Anna Malan (Binoche) and an American journalist, Langston Whitfield (Jackson), sent to South Africa to report about the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission hearings.
Langston Whitfield is a Washington Post journalist. His editor provocatively sends him to South Africa to cover the Truth and Reconciliation Commission hearings, in which the perpetrators of murder and torture on both sides during Apartheid are invited to come forward and confront their victims.
Mar 11, 2005 · A South African Story of Truth, Love and Reconcilliation. Overview. An American reporter and an Afrikaans poet meet and fall in love while covering South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission hearings. John Boorman. Director. Antjie Krog. Novel. Ann Peacock. Screenplay.
In My Country opens with a Black South African asking members of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission if there can be justice for the victims of apartheid without exacting vengeance on that brutal system’s perpetrators or its white beneficiaries.
