Dawid Minnaar
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Department: Acting
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Hansie
Overview: "How do you start over once you have betrayed a nation's trust?" The news of Hansie Cronjé's involvement with Indian bookmakers and his resulting public confession rocked the international sporting community. An unprecedented rise to glory was followed by the most horrific fall. A tarnished hero fueled the nation's fury.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-01-01
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The Visual Bible: Matthew
Overview: The only dramatization using the actual scriptures...word for word from the New International Version (NIV). In Israel, then known as Judea of the Roman Empire, Nazarene Jesus Christ travels around the country with His disciples preaching to the people about God and salvation of their souls.
Genres: Drama Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-10-01
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Fiela's Child
Overview: The acclaimed drama based on Dalene Matthee´s award-winning novel. "Fiela se Kind" (Fiela's Child) is the story of a white foundling boy that is raised by a brown family. But the childs life changes irrevocably when white census officials discover him living across the established borders of society, and he is removed from his foster parents. "This is the moving story about a close family being torn apart by the social convictions of the day. It is the story of a mother´s enduring love and hope to see her taken son again. Fiela is a down to earth woman farmer who does not let anyone step on her. She raised a white castaway child, Benjamin, and teaches him the simple things in life."
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: af
Release Date: 1988-01-01
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Dis ek, Anna
Overview: Set in modern-day South Africa, it tells the story of Anna Bruwer, who avenges years of abuse suffered at the hands of her stepfather and the court case that ensues.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: af
Release Date: 2015-10-23
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The Miracle Worker
Overview: Die Wonderwerker tells the story of Eugène Marais, a famous Afrikaans writer, poet and researcher. The story focuses on the few months he spends on the Van Rooyen's farm, where he falls in love with the 19-year-old Jane Brayshaw.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: af
Release Date: 2012-09-07
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Ouma Se Slim Kind
Overview: Set in the 1940's, Ouma Se Slim Kind is an honest tale of the foibles of humanity, love and friendship, set against the often harsh, yet strikingly beautiful rural South African landscape.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-05-11
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Five Star: The Final
Overview: Five star (hotel) is a sarcastic reference to the Pretoria prison which is central to the plot. An inmate Skollie (A nickname meaning delinquent) escapes from jail with one desire, to be united with his son again. Life outside is much different to what Skollie remembers. Still behind bars are inmates Pappa, Priester and Polka, who are doing everything to prevent Skollie from being reunited with his son, even if that means they have to kill. Skollie discovers that Pappa might be responsible for the death of his mother and he vows revenge.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: af
Release Date: 1986-09-19
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Kanarie
Overview: Kanarie (Afrikaans for 'Canary') is a coming-of-age musical war drama. Drafted into the South African army during apartheid, a young soldier joins the military's traveling choir, and romance on the battlefield causes him to deal with his long-repressed sexual identity through hardship, camaraderie, first love, and the liberating freedom of music, the true self can be discovered.
Genres: Music Drama
Original Language: af
Release Date: 2018-05-29
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The Tokoloshe
Overview: Busi, a young destitute woman with dangerously repressed emotions, lands a job as a cleaner at a rundown hospital in the heart of Johannesburg. Desperate for the money so she can bring her younger sister to Johannesburg, she must cope despite the predatory and corrupt hospital manager. When Busi discovers an abandoned young girl in the hospital, who believes she is tormented by a supernatural force, Busi must face her own demons from her past in order to save the child from the abusive monster that pursues them both relentlessly.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-08-25
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Poppie Nongena
Overview: Based on a true story: South Africa, mid 70s. When her husband becomes too ill to work, Poppie is deemed by the law to be an illegal resident in her own country. Based on the Elsa Joubert novel regarded as one of the best African novels of the century.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: af
Release Date: 2020-01-31
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Nag van die 19de
Overview: Tessa walks through the small fishing community in her wedding dress every year on the night of the nineteenth, since she was raped on the eve of her wedding and her fiancé committed suicide. Piece-by-piece, she gathers information about the identity of the rapist.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: af
Release Date: 1991-07-19
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