After the end of Apartheid, Archbishop Desmond Tutu meets with a brutal murderer seeking redemption.
The Forgiven is a 2021 crime drama film written and directed by John Michael McDonagh and based on the 2012 novel by Lawrence Osborne. The film stars Ralph Fiennes, Jessica Chastain, Matt Smith, Ismael Kanater, Caleb Landry Jones, Abbey Lee, Mourad Zaoui, Marie-Josée Croze, Alex Jennings, Saïd Taghmaoui, and Christopher Abbott. Elizabeth Eves and McDonagh produced the film under their House of Un-American Activities label.
