the Truth and Reconciliation Commission and that 1,165 perpetrators received amnesty under the peace process. Cast Juliette Binoche as Anna Malan Samuel L. Jackson as Langston Whitfield Brendan Gleeson as De Jager Menzi Ngubane as Dumi Mkhalipi Aletta Bezuidenhout as Elsa Lionel Newton as Edward Morgan Langley Kirkwood as Boetie Owen Sejake as Reverend Mzondo Charley Boorman as Adam Hartley Production Filming took place in and around Cape Town and the Cape Peninsula. Capetonians and travellers familiar with the city will recognise several well-known land-marks co-opted to represent scenes within the film: The South African Museum, The Gardens, Cape Town Tuinhuis Table Mountain The Countryside and surrounds of Paarl and Malmesbury. Mount Nelson Hotel Locations in Stellenbosch. Reception Nelson Mandela liked the film, and provided producers with a quote for promotion of the film: 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. While the film was thought to have its "heart and politics in the right place", the Washington Post described it as a "formula romance", in which Binoche fails at the Afrikaans accent and Jackson's character lacks credibility as a Post reporter. The film received much criticism for the inclusion of a love affair, and its depiction of black South Africans. Awards Berlin Film Festival 2004 Winner of Diamond Cinema for Peace Award 2004. References External links Apartheid films 2004 drama films 2004 films Films directed by John Boorman 2000s English-language films English-language South African films Films set in South Africa Sony Pictures Classics films Films produced by Robert Chartoff Phoenix Pictures films Films shot in South Africa Films set in 1995 Films set in 1996 Films set in the 1990s Truth and Reconciliation Commission (South Africa) South African drama films