A South African political prisoner is tortured to obtain information on apartheid conspirators. Ten years later, the head officer in charge of the questioning is similarly held as prisoner and questioned about his past offenses.
Acting
Nigel Hawthorne's trembling authority crumbling scene by scene.
Direction
Arthur Penn's final film — intimate, theatrical, unflinching.
Director
Arthur Penn
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Released two years after apartheid's official end, the film grapples with South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission era — questioning whether confession equals accountability.
This was Arthur Penn's swan song — the Bonnie and Clyde director died in 2010, leaving this 1996 TV movie as his final statement on institutional violence.
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