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The Forgiven<\/b><\/i>\u00a0is a 2017 South African drama film directed by\u00a0Roland Joff\u00e9<\/a>\u00a0starring\u00a0Forest Whitaker<\/a>,\u00a0Eric Bana<\/a>\u00a0and Jeff Gum.<\/p>\n

Joff\u00e9 co-wrote the script with Michael Ashton on the basis of the play\u00a0The Archbishop and the Antichrist<\/i>\u00a0by Michael Ashton, which tells a story involving Archbishop\u00a0Desmond Tutu<\/a>‘s search for answers during the\u00a0Truth and Reconciliation Commission<\/a>\u00a0and his meetings with the fictional character Piet Blomfeld.<\/p>\n

After the end of\u00a0apartheid<\/a>, Archbishop\u00a0Desmond Tutu<\/a>\u00a0is running the\u00a0Truth and Reconciliation Commission<\/a>\u00a0and visits Cape Town’s\u00a0Pollsmoor Maximum Security Prison<\/a>\u00a0to meet with Piet Blomfeld, an ex-security police officer and\u00a0Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging<\/a>\u00a0member, to assess his candidacy for amnesty.<\/p>\n

Blomfeld is a potential witness to murders committed during the time of Apartheid, particularly the murder of the teenage daughter of Mrs. Morobe, who begs the Archbishop to find answers about her missing daughter. Blomfeld initially shows no regret and no willingness to speak, instead using his time during the meetings to berate the Archbishop with insults. However, when the Archbishop shows him a photograph of a young black girl in his file and tells him that he is in two prisons, (the other being the prison within himself) he begins to reconsider.<\/p>\n

Francois Schmidt, one of Blomfeld’s fellow officers and a participant in the murders, initially tries to pay off a black gang to assassinate Blomfeld, but Blomfeld (having been affected by the Archbishop’s words) spares the life of the prisoner sent to kill him and manages to earn the respect of the gang to the point where they tell Schmidt to fight his own battles. He also forms somewhat of a bond with the prisoner, Benjamin.<\/p>\n

As this is going on, Howard Varney (one of the members of the Commission) speaks with Mrs. Van der Berghe, who had known Blomfeld when he was a child. He learns that Piet Blomfeld had been friends with a young black girl (the girl in the photograph); his father Rian did not approve and murdered the girl and her entire family before beating Piet so badly he broke his arm. Afterwards the Blomfelds moved to Zimbabwe; while Piet was at boarding school the rest of his family was killed (presumably as retaliation for Rian’s crimes.)<\/p>\n

Blomfeld ultimately decides to confess, and calls the archbishop. Schmidt arranges for the prison to be locked down and then attacks Blomfeld accompanied by riot troopers; Blomfeld is ultimately beaten to death by the troopers. However, he has sent an audio recording, confessing to the murder of Mrs. Morobe’s daughter and her boyfriend, which is played to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (he also leaves Benjamin what little money is in his bank account). Mrs. Morobe confronts Hansi Coetzee, one of the participants in her daughter’s murder and ultimately forgives him. Afterwards the Archbishop is met by Linda Coetzee, who thanks him for his work and admits that she hadn’t wanted to face what her husband had done.<\/p>\n

The movie ends with the Archbishop and his wife visiting the beach he had gone to as a child, now successfully integrated.<\/p>\n

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