It has recently been announced that Roland Joffe, (Londoner and) director of films The Mission and The Killing Fields has cast Forest Whitaker to play Archbishop Desmond Tutu in his upcoming film. In an adaptation of Michael Ashton’s play inspired by the events at the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in South Africa, the film — titled The Archbishop and the Antichrist — imagines a meeting between Tutu and ‘boorish white mass murderer’ Piet Blomfeld. Shadow and Act blog did some digging and found this synopsis of the play, which points toward somewhat banal complications of the TRC already addressed in a variety of other films, such as the questioning of rehabilitative justice instead of punitive justice, the subjective notion of ‘truth’, and redemption and reconciliation for[...]

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