After the end of Apartheid, Archbishop Desmond Tutu meets with a brutal murderer seeking redemption.
Acting
Whitaker channels Tutu's warmth and exhaustion; Bana's eyes never stop calculating.
Writing
The screenplay weaponizes politeness—every 'Archbishop' drips with menace.
Director
Roland Joffé
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Based on Michael Ashton's play 'The Archbishop and the Antichrist,' which Tutu himself consulted on—though he later distanced himself from this adaptation.
Joffé also directed 'The Killing Fields'—this is his return to political trauma thirty years later, and critics were... not kind.
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