In My Country with Samuel L. Jackson: DVD Cover

    In My Country
    a.k.a. Country of My Skull Director: John Boorman Cast: Samuel L. Jackson, Juliette Binoche, Brendan Gleeson, Menzi Ngubane

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    • DVD Release Date: 07/05/2005
    • Original Release: 2004
    • Rating: Rated R
    • Sales Rank: 35,973

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    Features

    Audio commentary by director John Borman; Deleted scenes with optional commentary; Interviews with Juliette Binoche, director John Boorman, screenwriter Ann Peacock, producers Robert Chartoff, Mike Medavoy and Lynn Hendee

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    Scene Index

    Side #1 --
    1. Start [4:29]
    2. The New South Africa [4:24]
    3. Truth & Reconciliation Commission [3:18]
    4. Reason to be Here [4:05]
    5. "Let Your Will be Done" [3:19]
    6. Testimony [4:19]
    7. Common Purpose [3:16]
    8. Torture Tales [4:51]
    9. "It's all About Skin" [2:36]
    10. Little Ones [4:07]
    11. "Maybe We Shouldn't" [3:21]
    12. Radio Relentless [2:42]
    13. Too Remote [2:45]
    14. "Something Bad" [2:07]
    15. Life of the Party [1:50]
    16. Details [4:01]
    17. Losing Control [4:58]
    18. Forgiven [4:06]
    19. Postponement [2:10]
    20. "You Don't Know Us" [4:53]
    21. Anderson [3:35]
    22. The Colonel's Proof [2:51]
    23. Torture Farm [4:10]
    24. 63 Counts of Murder [2:29]
    25. Family Tragedy [4:01]
    26. Confession [:44]
    27. Celebrations & Farewells [4:10]
    28. Old Friends [9:07]

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    The many emotional scars left by South Africa's history of institutionalized racism come under the microscope in this drama. As South Africa comes to terms with the legacy of apartheid, their government has created the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, in which the perpetrators of racial violence and injustice must come face to face with their victims if they are to be forgiven for their crimes. Langston Whitfield (Samuel L. Jackson) is an African-American journalist who is assigned to cover these hearings by The Washington Post; Whitfield doubts the efficacy of this process, and sets out to interview Col. De Jager (Brendan Gleeson), a notorious former officer of the South African police who was famous for his violence against blacks in order to put this method to the test. While in South Africa, Whitfield meets Anna Malan (Juliette Binoche), an Afrikaner poet who is covering the hearing for a radio station and is both appalled and disturbed by the details of the violence inflicted against her countrymen. After striking up a friendship, Whitfield and Malan become romantically involved as they try to come to terms with their feelings about what they've learned. Also screened under the title Country of My Skull, In My Country was adapted from a book by South African author Antjie Krog. Mark Deming, All Movie Guide

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