Are there any good apartheid era movies?

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Porgie

There were a lot of good South African movies made during the Apartheid era. I can remember quite a lot of them. Most of the movies then were in Afrikaans.

DIRKIE (Jamie Uys, 1969, Classical South African drama about a young boy trying to survive in the Namib desert after an airplane crash. Visually beautiful)

PAPPA LAP (Jans Rautenbach, 1971. A subtle exploration of class differences between Afrikaners with the emphasis on a young working class teenager striving towards â€˜middle class respectabilityâ€™)

GROETNIS VIR DIE EERSTE MINISTER (Bertrand Retief, 1973) A Young boy departs on a long journey to speak to the Prime Minister to beg for assistance during a devastating drought, which is destroying his dadâ€™s farm.

Eâ€™LOLLIPOP (Ashley Lazarus, 1974) Famous local drama, which recently has enjoyed a revival and has been screened as part of South Africaâ€™s Ten yearâ€™s of Democracy celebrations at Cannes. Twenty years before the birth of a new democratic South Africa this film daringly deals with racial reconciliation by telling the story of a great friendship between a white and black boy. It is currently available on DVD.

TOJAN (Johan Blignaut, 1986) Moving drama about a teenagerâ€™s quest for spiritual revival. Tired and weary of the mindless township preoccupations of gambling, drinking and discos, Tojan breaks away on a cycle journey to the mysterious Blue Mountains. On his way the boy encounters open spaces which daub his spirit with calmness as eternal as the land and as beautiful as its people.

FIELA SE KIND (Katinka Heyns, 1987) Famous historical drama about a white boy which was raised by a black family. A truly remarkable film.

And then there are others that are more well known, like:
Animals Are Beautiful People http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071143/
The Gods Must Be Crazy http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080801/
Shaka Zulu http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093950/
Mapantsula http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0095587/

Some movies aren't that well known, like the 'Boetie-movies' and 'Vyfster' as well as 'Siener in die Suburbs'. But they are all good ones.

Darth Vader

More movies by Jamie Uys:
Dingaka (1965)
After You, Comrade (1967)
Lost in the Desert (Afrikaans version as "Dirkie": 1969; English version as "Dirkie Lost in the Desert" / "Lost in the Desert": 1969/1970)
Animals Are Beautiful People (1974)
The Gods Must Be Crazy (1979)
Funny People II (1983)
The Gods Must Be Crazy II (1989)

Darryl Roodt's A Place of Weeping (1986)

Odie

Jock of the bushveld, I think that is the film Lise K is talking about.

Joppie

No "Lord Oom Piet " from Jamie was the best
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Snorkie

Darth and Porgie are on the spot, there was also a movie about a dog which I really loved as a child "My naam is Lelik". I remember crying my eyes out when I watched it.

mr zack

fiela se kind. its a touching story bru

ANNIECAT

Thanks Darth for jolting my memory. I had utterly forgotten. They were all good.

Sitting in Aussie, you seem to forget the lighter side of life in SA. No to mention you miss it like ....

Dinah f

Thanks for this question and answers. I have been looking for these along time.
Now all I have to do is try to find them.

Commander MJ

The Gods Must Be Crazy, Zulu, Zulu Dawn....

Blouspook

Katrina. Die Kandidaat.

In addition to ones mentioned by Progie, DV.......there is a movie called "Mapantsula". Main actor is Thomas Mogotlane,character name is "Panic", a black small-time thief. He spends the greater part of his life in jail.

Panic, inevitably gets caught up in the growing anti-apartheid struggle and has to choose between individual gain and a united stand against the system.

It is still my favourite SA movie.........

Illegal Immigrant

One of the Lethal Weapon movies dealt with it.

Cilantro

Sarafina

...Whoopi Goldberg is in it too..she's the teacher..

ctelly22

Cry freedom and Sarafina are really good movies. Catch a fire and goodbye bafana are recent releases about apartheid. Have not seen those two so not sure how good they are.

bookish

"Cry the Beloved Country" with James Earl Jones and Richard Harris. It's wonderful and incredibly moving.

i cant remember the name of the movie - but was locally produced about 2 or so years ago - about the power stations and memebers of the anc

SSS

ya the movie Gandhi.

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