Rolanda Marais
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Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: South Africa
Birthday: January 19, 1978
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Gender: Female
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Wolwedans In Die Skemer
Overview: A young woman, Sonja Daneel, crashes her car near the spectacular Hotel Njala in Hazyview and loses her memory. Upon her arrival at the hotel, she gets involved with an obsessed family whose lives are controlled by this spooky, eerie hotel. She also quickly discovers that family secrets and an obsession with the past haunt and control their every move. Sonja soon falls in love with the enigmatic Ryno Lategan, a tour guide who befriends her and promises to help her regain her memory. But when a vicious axe murderer starts terrorising Sonja, she realizes that she has some strange connection to this hotel in her past and that this connection could cost her her life. Things change when an eccentric investigator, Lieutenant Conrad Nolte and his assistant, Sergeant Berta van Schalkwyk, start investigating the murders at Hotel Njala and make some startling discoveries that even shock these two hardened investigators.
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Original Language: af
Release Date: 2012-10-05
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The Man in the Mirror
Overview: Set in Zululand South Africa three Zulu men must re-awaken sleeping demons when Mpiyakhe, now a successful Johannesburg businessman, returns home. Under adversity they are compelled to make life changing choices.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: af
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The Ballad of Robbie de Wee
Overview: Len van Jaarsveld used to be on the top of his game. As one of the country’s leading music producers he had it all: the stars, the hits, the connections and the. But it all came crashing down: his wife left him, his bands abandoned him, the creditors moved in and he found himself on the street with nothing. As he’s about to hit rock bottom Len is introduced to a rising new star Robbie de Wee. A shy young man with an amazing natural talent, this youngster has success written all over him. Len sees this kid as a ticket back into the music industry and he’s determined to make him a star. He takes Robbie on, organizing tours, publicity, music videos and helps Robbie climb the ladder to stardom while rediscovering his own formidable business talents. But when a young girl is found dead in the singer’s hotel room, Len goes into overdrive to protect his star from the media and the authorities.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-10-23
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Ballade vir 'n Enkeling
Overview: Based upon the book written by South African author Leon van Nierop, and the 1980s TV series it spawned, this drama focuses on the mysterious disappearance of celebrated writer Jacques Rynhard (Armand Aucamp), and the investigative hunt for him launched by journalist Carina Human (DonnaLee Roberts). Christia Visser, Rolanda Marais and Jacques Bessenger co-star.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: af
Release Date: 2015-03-20
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Dead Easy
Overview: A married couple are about to face a series of difficult problems. The two engage in an escalating series of infidelities and mind games that could very well lead to their mutual destruction.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2004-12-13
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Free State
Overview: Jeanette is a beautiful open minded law student. She decided to study while her boyfriend is completing his national military service. They are set to be engaged when he returns. During her summer holiday with her father in the Free State a random act of kindness by an attractive Indian man sparks an unexpected love affair. Despite being warned not to act on these feelings she decides to pursue this relationship. Secret meetings followed, since it was against the law at the time to have an interracial relationship. When their secret comes out, it leads to a very tragic turn of events.
Genres: Drama Family Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-04-27
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Boy Kills World
Overview: When his family is murdered, a deaf-mute named Boy escapes to the jungle and is trained by a mysterious shaman to repress his childish imagination and become an instrument of death.
Genres: Crime Thriller Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-04-24
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Borderline
Overview: Psychiatrist Dr. Lila Colleti is divorcing her husband and is devastated when he wins custody of their two little girls, whom he gets largely because Lila's job, being a psychiatrist for the criminally insane at the local prison, is a potentially dangerous one that forces her to keep long, erratic hours. When one of Lila's patients, Ed Baikman, is released into a half-way house, he decides under the delusional influence of his psychosis to help her out by murdering her ex-husband and his girlfriend, and then threatening to tell the cops they'd planned it together when she refuses to become romantically involved with him. Though Lila's lover, police detective Macy Kobacek, stands by her loyally, Baikman does such an ingenious job of implicating Lila in the crime that even Macy begins to have his doubts about Lila's innocence
Genres: Drama Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-11-15
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Johnny is not Dead
Overview: A look into the tumultuous life of Johannes Kerkorrel and the Voëlvry movement during Apartheid South-Africa
Genres: Drama
Original Language: af
Release Date: 2016-08-31
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Die Seemeeu
Overview: Christiaan Olwagen (Johnny is nie Dood nie, Kanarie) adapts Anton Chekhov's classic play, The Seagull, to film, and places it in South Africa in the 1990’s, almost one hundred years after it was written.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: af
Release Date: 2019-04-05
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Sulphur & White
Overview: David is a successful city trader in London who is relentlessly focused on work. Beneath the confident facade, he is trapped by memories of the past and hostile to anyone who dares to help. Flashbacks reveal a childhood in South Africa at the mercy of an inadequate bully of a father Donald and an ineffectual mother Joanne. The physical and sexual abuse he suffered threatens any chance of happiness he might have now.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-02-28
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Griekwastad
Overview: In 2012, Deon Steenkamp was murdered along with his wife Christel and their teenage daughter Marthella on their farm Naauwhoek. GRIEKWASTAD, based on the bestselling true crime novel by Jacques Steenkamp, tells the tale of the search to find the truth around these murders, however difficult and upsetting it may be.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: af
Release Date: 2020-06-05
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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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Who's a Good Boy
Overview: The story is about Gys (Pretorius), whose messy life landed him in a dimly lit corner. His boss, Roelf (Carel Nel), must take care of and clean up after a puppy he emphatically never wanted. He now forces Gys to do his dirty work for him and put Buksie out. If Gys refuses, his job will be on the line. Gys must make a plan, and quickly …
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Original Language: af
Release Date: 2024-08-30
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