Tertius Meintjes
Also Known As: Tertius Meintjies
Biography: Performed in the Afrikaans production of Equus (as “Alan Strang”), late 1970s. Other stage productions include Sing jy van Bomme (PACT 1988), Paulus (KKNK 2007). He wrote the stage play Dis Seker die Honde and the television screenplay The Pink Leather Chair. On television he played one of the lead roles in Plek van die Vleisvreters, had a lead role in Isidingo and played in numerous other productions.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Not available
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Die Ongelooflike Avonture van Hanna Hoekom
Overview: Based on the favourite Afrikaans children's novel, Hanna is 14 going on 15 and is part of a rather unconventional family. They go on holiday to the Cederberg for a family reunion, which leads to plenty of surprises and reconciliation. Hanna is an intelligent and imaginative young girl who's earned herself the nickname "Hoekom," because she's forever questioning things. When her eccentric mother decides that the family – including her gay biological dad, actor stepfather, detestable half-brother and two stepbrothers – should spend their winter holiday in a remote house on a mountain, they end up stranded with nowhere to go and no-one to turn to except each other.
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Original Language: af
Release Date: 2010-08-01
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The Lost Future
Overview: A group of post-apocalyptic survivors, struggle to survive in a world where jungles and forests and primeval wetlands and deserts have obliterated civilization. They staunchly face genetically mutating beasts and mysterious diseases in an attempt to re-establish the human race as masters of Earth.
Genres: Adventure Science Fiction TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-11-13
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The Fourth Reich
Overview: Robey Leibbrandt was a South African boxer who became fascinated with Nazi ideology during the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin. In1939 he led an operation to overthrow the pro-Allied government of General Jan Smuts.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-10-25
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To the Death
Overview: Kickboxing champ Rick Quinn decides to retire from the ring, but his main adversary, Denard, wants him to fight again and murders Quinn's wife. Quinn suspects Denard, but can't do anything. Three month later, Quinn is jailed after a drunken bar brawl; a rich man named Le Braque bails him out and asks him to fight for him.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-07-23
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Jobman
Overview: Smith, the deaf and dumb son of a rural coloured preacher, refuses to accept the menial labour on offer in the small farming community where he’s grown up. He tries to earn a living in the city, but this ends in assault, and his return home sparks off a cycle of vengeful violence.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-09-12
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Blink Stefaans
Overview: Fanus is a nerdy sound technician who is never noticed by anyone, and especially not by the boss’s pretty but temperamental daughter, Linda. All this changes with the arrival of alter ego 'Blink Stefaans', who has plenty of advice for Fanus, from how to be more assertive to how to dress. 'Blink' translates to bright or shiny. Suddenly Fanus life changes into a roller-coaster ride of ups and downs. Blink Stefaans, in this gentle romantic comedy.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: af
Release Date: 1981-06-22
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Agter elke man
Overview: A concluding movie to the Afrikaans television series that ran for two seasons, this movie focuses mainly on Bruce Beyers after he is released from jail (2 years after the second season ended). Many main characters from the TV series did not return for the movie. The movie also features Steve Hofmeyer's song, "Agter Elke Man", which he wrote for the movie.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-09-28
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Hunting Emma
Overview: Emma le Roux just wants to go home for the holidays. Gentle, beautiful, pacifist Emma. She's made the trip to her father's farm a thousand times. Piece of cake. But not today. Today she will cross paths with members of a violent drug syndicate. Everything starts falling apart, and fast. At first they were driven by hate and revenge. Suddenly, it's survival.
Genres: Thriller Action
Original Language: af
Release Date: 2017-06-12
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An Elephant's Journey
Overview: A lost orphan boy and a giant elephant team up to take down an elephant poaching syndicate.
Genres: Adventure Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-04-16
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The Librarian: Return to King Solomon's Mines
Overview: After retrieving the Crystal Skull in Utah, Flynn Carsen receives a map in the mail with the secret location of King Solomon's Mines. When the scroll is stolen, Judson explains the power of the Key of Solomon's book and assigns Flynn to retrieve the map. The map is useless without the legend piece to decipher it, which is located in Volubilis near the Roman ruins in Morocco. Flynn heads to Casablanca to the ruins where he is chased by a group of mercenaries leaded by General Samir. They too want to find the location of King Solomon's mines. Flynn teams-up with Professor Emily Davenport working in the dig and they escape from General Samir and his men. While traveling to Gedi, they save the local Jomo from death and the trio faces a dangerous journey through the wild Africa.
Genres: Fantasy Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-09-09
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Sarafina!
Overview: The plot centers on students involved in the Soweto Riots, in opposition to the implementation of Afrikaans as the language of instruction in schools. The stage version presents a school uprising similar to the Soweto uprising on June 16, 1976. A narrator introduces several characters among them the school girl activist Sarafina. Things get out of control when a policeman shoots several pupils in a classroom. Nevertheless, the musical ends with a cheerful farewell show of pupils leaving school, which takes most of act two. In the movie version Sarafina feels shame at her mother's (played by Miriam Makeba in the film) acceptance of her role as domestic servant in a white household in apartheid South Africa, and inspires her peers to rise up in protest, especially after her inspirational teacher, Mary Masombuka (played by Whoopi Goldberg in the film version) is imprisoned.
Genres: Music Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-09-18
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Friends
Overview: The beginning of the end of the apartheid era in South Africa is seen through the perspectives of three female friends: Sophie, who is of English descent; Aninka, who is an Afrikaner; and Thoko, who is black.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-05-26
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Die Ontwaking
Overview: Abel is preparing for a special gift to himself on his 50th Birthday. He wants to find himself a new face, that of a beautiful young woman. Ella Nesser is the attractive, but inexperienced murder detective, in charge of the case to track down the serial killer who has been praying on the city's young woman. When Abel develops an obsession with not only her face, but also her tattooed skin - the Hunter becomes the Hunted.
Genres: Thriller Crime Horror
Original Language: af
Release Date: 2016-02-26
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Mandela and de Klerk
Overview: Sidney Poitier and Michael Caine both received Emmy nominations for their performances in this made-for-TV movie. The plot follows Nelson Mandela's 27-year struggle to end apartheid.
Genres: Drama History TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1997-02-16
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Berserker: Hell's Warrior
Overview: Kari Wührer stars as a witch, who turns the king's son Barek into an immortal berserker. The enmity between Barek and the witch extends to the present day in his attempts to become mortal again and break Odin's curse.
Genres: Action Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-05-11
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