Roland Joffe's The Forgiven opens nationwide this weekend

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Roland Joffe's fictionalized drama about  Emeritus Archbishop Desmond Tutu's early days as chairman of South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission opens in movie houses across South Africa today.

Critics have raved about the performances of Forest Whitaker as Tutu, and Eric Bana as an imprisoned racist government death-squad assassin seeking clemency. Based on the play, The Archbishop and the Antichrist by Michael Ashton, it is the first time that the TRC, which played such a huge role in the catharsis of a desperately traumatised nation over twenty years ago, has made it to the big screen.

Watch the trailer right here.