Pierre van Pletzen
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Stilfontein, Western Transvaal, South Africa
Birthday: January 01, 1952
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Gender: Other
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The Gods Must Be Crazy II
Overview: Xixo is back again. This time, his children accidentally stow away on a fast-moving poachers' truck, unable to get off, and Xixo sets out to rescue them. Along the way, he encounters a couple of soldiers trying to capture each other and a pilot and passenger of a small plane, who are each having a few problems of their own.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-07-01
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Panic Mechanic
Overview: When Hanky Pranky (alias Schucks), star of a candid camera TV show, loses his job to affirmative action, he applies for a job at a stress academy. It´s not long before Schucks discovers his new boss, Jack Paddaman, is as crooked as they come, but it´s too late: the employment contract is signed and sealed.A year passes, and Schucks is no better off. However, his candid camera videos, which poke fun at all sectors of post-1994 South Africa, prove a big hit with stressed-out government ministers. When the president asks Paddaman to make a movie to benefit street children, Schucks and his pals do all the hard work while Paddaman plans how he can get hold of the profits from the video sales. Add a scatterbrained secretary, a lovelorn traffic cop and a cunning street child and you have a roll-in-the aisles comedy with a distinctly South African flavour.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-11-29
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Orkney Snork Nie (Die Movie)
Overview: We go on vacation to Margate with the van Tonder Family. Hendrik wants to go fishing, the kids swim and play Yollie and Maggie wants to sunbathe and Ouboet has a self built modded speedboat (Spuitpoep II) which he wants to test out at sea. Their dream vacation gets sabotaged by a Joburg company, who wants to buy the caravan park where they are vacationing to demolish it and build a shopping mall. But then they get to deal with the van Tonders who doesn't let anyone mess with them. Hillarious from beginning to end.
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Original Language: af
Release Date: 1992-04-16
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Orkney Snork Nie 2
Overview: The second movie based on a South African sitcom by the same name.They celebrate their new found richness in style but soon lose more than they had won. Scam artists rob and deceive them.The mine fires them and their wives won't allow them to come home. They numerous trials and tribulations to get everything back to the way it was.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: af
Release Date: 1993-01-01
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Taxi to Soweto
Overview: A Gentle story with a moral of forgive and forget at the kernel of its’ comedy exterior ~ but also one that accurately foretold the changes that were to sweep across South Africa in 1994, as an uptight suburban Johannesburg housewife (Elize Cawood, with an equally uptight husband played by Marius Weyers) accepts a lift from a Sowetan taxi driver (Patrick Shai) and gets taken into another world entirely
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-10-31
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Hans Crosses The Rubicon
Overview: A widower, Hans (90), is forced into a repressive old-age-home. Once there, he comes face to face with the draconian management, who forces him to become a rebel and activist, a 90-year-old-man who has nothing to lose by revolting. An anti-ageism revolution about growing old on your own terms.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Drama
Original Language: af
Release Date: 2023-09-28
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Windprints
Overview: A South African journalist is sent to Namibia to investigate a serial killer.
Genres: Action Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-06-29
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Meerkat Moonship
Overview: Timid, wildly imaginative 13-year-old Gideonette de La Rey learns that the name she was given comes with it a horrible curse. After her father dies, Gideonette is paralyzed by fear and is sent to live on a farm in the forest with her grandparents where she befriends a young deaf boy who is “training” to become an astronaut and preparing to fly away in a Moonship that Gideonette’s grandfather had built.
Genres: Fantasy
Original Language: af
Release Date: 2018-03-16
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Niemandsland
Overview: Just after the Anglo-Boer War, a dispute arises when Ester returns home from a concentration camp only to find that her cousin and her English-speaking husband have moved into Ester's house.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: af
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