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Journalism | Apartheid
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Cinema for Peace Award for The Most Valuable Film of the Year | 2004
Peace | 2006
2004 | John
Best Film | 2004 | John
Budget 12,000,000 USD
Box Office Collection 1,491,434 USD
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.
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 scenes at the Malan family farm (which was in actually in Transvaal in the northern part of the country) were shot in the farmlands an hour to the north of Cape Town.
The exterior scenes and shots of the TRC hearings (for instance where Anna and Dumi first meet) were shot on the forecourt of the South African Museum in the Company Gardens in Cape Town's city center. At least some of the internal scenes were shot in the Centre for the Book, which is down the road from the Museum and has curving corridors. The exterior of the court scene was shot outside the Centre for the Book.
The exterior scenes and shots of the TRC hearings (for instance where Anna (Juliette Binoche) and Dumi (Menzi Ngubane) first meet) were shot on the forecourt of the South African Museum in the Company Gardens in Cape Town's city center. At least some of the internal scenes were shot in the Centre for the Book, which is down the road from the Museum and has curving corridors.
"Anna Malan: [last lines - voiceover] Because of you, this land no longer lies between us but within. It breathes becalmed, after being wounded in its wondrous throat. In the cradle of my skulll it sings, it ignites my tongue. Five thousand stories are scorched on your skin. I am changed forever.. I want to say, forgive me, forgive me, forgive me."
"Col. de Jager: You want to kill me now, don't you? We're all the same. You're just like me. Langston Whitfield: I would love to kill you."
