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Long Night's Journey Into Day

A study of the work of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission, as South Africans confront their apartheid past. Four cases demonstrate how the commission works, what faces the witnesses telling their stories, the defendants seeking amnesty, and the pain and anger experieced as they relive the past.

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  • "Long night's journey into day : South Africa's search for truth & reconciliation"@en
  • "South Africa's search for truth and reconciliation"
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  • ""A study of the work of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission, as South Africans confront their apartheid past. Four cases demonstrate how the commission works, what faces the witnesses telling their stories, the defendants seeking amnesty, and the pain and anger experieced as they relive the past.""
  • "A study of the work of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission, as South Africans confront their apartheid past. Four cases demonstrate how the commission works, what faces the witnesses telling their stories, the defendants seeking amnesty, and the pain and anger experieced as they relive the past."@en
  • "A study of the work of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission, as South Africans confront their apartheid past. Four cases demonstrate how the commission works, what faces the witnesses telling their stories, the defendants seeking amnesty, and the pain and anger experieced as they relive the past."
  • "Follows four cases over a two-year period that were brought before South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission which investigates the crimes of apartheid, by bringing together victims and perpetrators to relive South Africa's brutal history. In so doing South Africa is showing the rest of the world that even the most bitter conflicts can be addressed through honesty and communication, providing the most definitive record of one of the most ambitious and innovative attempts at social reconciliation without precedent in human history."
  • "Follows four cases over a two-year period that were brought before South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission which investigates the crimes of apartheid, by bringing together victims and perpetrators to relive South Africa's brutal history. In so doing South Africa is showing the rest of the world that even the most bitter conflicts can be addressed through honesty and communication, providing the most definitive record of one of the most ambitious and innovative attempts at social reconciliation without precedent in human history."@en
  • "This documentary studies South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), set up by the post-apartheid, democratic government to consider amnesty for perpetrators of crimes committed under apartheid's reign. "At the heart of these matters is the sticky question of forgiveness. As the camera watches unflinchingly, murderers (who are relatively quick to apologise for their actions) face the families of slain victims, who sometimes aren't so quick to offer absolution. Tellingly, the tally doesn't cut neatly across racial lines. It's a grave reminder that what starts out as a black-and-white issue - literally or figuratively - must be reconceived as a more complex human one if progress is to be made. This film is a bold and moving step in that process."[Time Out, New York]--Kanopy."
  • "A documentary of South Africa's quest for restorative justice following four cases that come before the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC). For over forty years, South Africa was governed by the most notorious form of racial domination since Nazi Germany. When it finally collapsed, those who had enforced apartheid's rule wanted amnesty for their crimes. Their victims wanted justice. As a compromise, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) was formed. As it investigated the crimes of apartheid, the Commission brought together victims and perpetrators to relive South Africa's brutal history. By revealing the past instead of burying it, the TRC hoped to pave the way to a peaceful future. Long Night's Journey Into Day follows several TRC cases over a two-year period. The stories in the film underscore the universal themes of conflict, forgiveness, and renewal. A white special forces officer, struggles to reach peace with the embittered wife of a black activist he killed 14 years before. A group of mothers, after enduring years of misinformation and denials by the authorities, learn the truth about how their sons were set up, betrayed and killed in a vicious police conspiracy. A liberation movement combatant who blew up a bar frequented by the security police expresses his remorse about the civilians killed, but the sister of a victim remains doubtful. A young black activist comes to recognize the anguish he caused by killing a white American student during a mob riot, while her parents see past their pain to embrace a new multi-racial South Africa. As it emerges from its tragedy, South Africa is showing the rest of the world that even the most bitter of conflicts can be addressed through honesty and communication. Long Night's Journey Into Day provides the definitive record of one of the most ambitious and innovative attempts at social reconciliation without precedent in human history. 2000 Academy Award Nominee, best documentary feature, 2000 Sundance Festival Film Festival, Grand Prize Winner, Best Documentary, ALA Booklist's Editor's Choice Award, best video of 2000. "This is an impressive, heart-rending film and it deserves wide circulation."- Archbishop Desmond Tutu. "This film raises fully as many questions as it answers. This makes it a thoughtful, provocative and deeply moving film." - Alice Walker. "The emotion of our hard experience comes through as unmediated drama. The film is a document of what we went through and itself becomes part of the experience."- Albie Sachs, Justice of the Constitutional Court of South Africa. "A beautiful and often disturbing reflection on the nature of truth and forgiveness."- New York Times."@en
  • "Durante más de cuarenta años, Sudáfrica fue gobernada por la forma más notoria de dominación racial desde Alemania. Sus víctimas quisieron la justicia, como un compromiso, la Comisión de Reconciliación (TRC), investigó los crímenes para volver a vivir la historia brutal de Sudáfrica."
  • "For over forty years, South Africa was governed by the most notorious form of racial domination since Nazi Germany. When it finally collapsed, those who had enforced apartheid's rule wanted amnesty for their crimes. Their victims wanted justice. As a compromise, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) was formed. As it investigated the crimes of apartheid, the Commission brought together victims and perpetrators to relive South Africa's brutal history. By revealing the past instead of burying it, the TRC hoped to pave the way to a peaceful future."

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  • "Long nights journey into day [videorecording]"
  • "Long Night's Journey Into Day"@en
  • "Long night's journey into day"
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  • "Long Night's Journey into Day : South Africa's Search for Truth & Reconciliation"
  • "Long night's journey into day South Africa's search for truth and reconciliation"
  • "Long night's journey into day [South Africa's search for truth & reconciliation]"
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  • "Long nights journey into day"@en
  • "Long night's journey into day South Africa's search for truth & reconciliation"
  • "Long night's journey into day : South Africa's search for truth & reconciliation"

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