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When:
June 7, 2019 @ 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm
2019-06-07T18:30:00-04:00
2019-06-07T19:30:00-04:00
Where:
Peace Center of Delaware County
1001 Old Sproul Rd Springfield
PA 19064
1001 Old Sproul Rd Springfield
PA 19064
Cost:
Free
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THE FORGIVEN, starring Forest Whitaker as Archbishop Desmond Tutu
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he film dramatizes the struggle by South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Nobel Peace Prize winner and chairman of South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission, to comprehend the particularly racist and violent acts committed by an Afrikaner police officer during white apartheid rule.The 2018 film, THE FORGIVEN , will be screened at the First-Friday Free Large-Screen Film Series at the Peace Center of Delaware County, 1001 Old Sproul Road, Springfield, PA.
Doors open at 6:30pm for light refreshments.
THE FORGIVEN is the most recent film from director Roland Joffé, whose films include The Killing Fields, The Mission, and Fat Man & Little Boy. THE FORGIVEN tells the story of Archbishop Desmond Tutu, portrayed by Academy Award winner, Forest Whitaker, coming face to face with a man whose all-consuming hatred, racism, and violence, causes this internationally revered man of peace to question some of his most fundamental beliefs.
The story focuses on meetings between Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Nobel Peace Prize winner and chairman of South Africa’s Post-Apartheid Truth and Reconciliation Commission, with a composite fictional character, Piet Blomfeld, an ex-security police officer and convicted of multiple acts of torture, rape, and murder.
With the end of apartheid in South Africa, and its policy of white minority rule, Tutu is appointed to run the Truth and Reconciliation Commission and its mission of “restorative justice.” Tutu visits Cape Town’s Pollsmoor Maximum Security Prison to meet with Piet Blomfeld and assess his candidacy for amnesty. What the Archbishop hears from Blomfeld causes him to ask of himself: are there some crimes that a “forgiving man of peace” cannot forgive?
Forest Whitaker as Tutu and Eric Bana as Blomfeld deliver riveting performances in this tense and disturbing drama, with back stories based on actual events. True to Joffé’s previous films, THE FORGIVEN poses very important questions for people today.
THE FORGIVEN, 2018. Rated R (for disturbing/violent content, and language, with sexual references). 115 min. Thriller. Directed by Roland Joffé. Written by Roland Joffé and Michael Ashton.
The First-Friday free film series at the Peace Center of Delaware County is organized monthly by the Brandywine Peace Community.
For directions to the Peace Center or more information visit www.delcopeacecenter.org or call 484-574-1148.