In My Country (Country of my Skull) (2004)

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In My Country (Country of my Skull)

ORIGINAL TITLE

In My Country (Country of my Skull)

YEAR

2004

RUNNING TIME

100 min.

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DIRECTOR

John Boorman

SCREENWRITER

Ann Peacock (Novel: Antjie Krog)

COMPOSER

Murray Anderson & Warrick Swinney

CINEMATOGRAPHER

Seamus Deasy

CAST

Juliette Binoche, Samuel L. Jackson, Brendan Gleeson

STUDIO/PRODUCER

Co-production UK-Ireland

OFFICIAL WEB

http://www.countryofmyskull.com

AWARDS

2004: Berlin Film Festival: Official Selection

GENRE

Drama | Racism

SYNOPSIS/PLOT

It is 1995; Langston Whitfield travels to South Africa to report on the Truth and Reconciliation Commission for the Washington Post. It is this commission’s task to bring to light the crimes committed during apartheid. The aim of the hearings is no so much to shed light on these sometimes brutal crimes, however, but to confront perpetrators with their victims. During these hearings, the tormentors of that period – thugs and prison wardens, torturers and rapists, police officers and neighbours – are brought before the men and women who were forced endure almost unimaginable suffering at their hands. Here they stand, eyeball to eyeball, piecing together the horror of apartheid. Regardless of the facts of each crime, these confrontations are all about the discussions between perpetrators and victims, in a bid to try and understand something barely understandable, or that may even be beyond understanding. Whitfield’s assignment to the Cape becomes an experience which calls into question everything he knew before. The admissions he witnesses; the quagmire of crime, delusion, stupidity and brutal vengeance as well as the way victims and perpetrators confront each other, transcends the bounds of the American journalist’s own imagination. During the course of the hearings, Whitfield makes friends with a white South African writer named Anna Malan, who is reporting on the hearings as a radio journalist.
Based on Antjie Krog’s novel of the same name, Boorman’s film combines an authentic record of South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission with a classic love story.

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