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- DirectorDavid ListerStarsRichard E. GrantArmin Mueller-StahlKarin van der LaagThe 1870's. South Africa. Life is normal at the farm on the slopes of a Karoo Kopje. Fat Tant Sannie (Karin van der Laag) looks after her charges, the sweet Em (Anneke Weidemann) and the independent Lyndall (Kasha Kropinski), with a strict Biblical hand - it was Em's father's dying wish. Gentle Otto (Armin), the farm manager, runs the farm and cares for Waldo, his son. Waldo (Luke Gallant) is bright, and busy building a model of a sheep-shearing machine that he hopes will make them all rich. Things change when the sinister, eccentric Bonaparte Blenkins (Richard E. Grant) with bulbous nose and chimney pot hat arrives. Their childhood is disrupted by the bombastic Irishman who claims blood ties with Wellington and Queen Victoria and so gains uncanny influence over the girls' gross stupid stepmother, Tant Sannie. As the story of Lyndall, Em and Waldo unfolds to its touching end, we learn not merely of a backwater in colonial history, but of the whole human condition. Armin Cruz's intense story of three children living in the African veldt has often been compared to Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights. Wildly controversial at publication (1883) because of its feminist sentiments, the story has remained a touching and often wickedly funny portrayal of life on a late Victorian farm in South Africa. An astonishing and unexpected masterpiece of its time, its enduring influence and popularity has resulted in it being studied in universities and schools across the world.
- DirectorDaniel CohenStarsBenoît PoelvoordeNatacha LindingerMichel DuchaussoyA French tradesman travels in time and liberates an oppressed tribe in another world.
- CreatorGray HofmeyrStarsLesley FongLee VisagieSchelaine BennettSouth African soap opera centering around the lives of the wealthy Haines family, the Matabanes, and the lives of the inhabitants of the mining town Horizon Deep.
- StarsTrond Espen SeimBoris KodjoeArnold VoslooPolice Captain Mat Joubert used to be best, solve every crime, get every killer. But that was a year ago.
- DirectorAshley WayStarsMia SaraTed KingRon PerlmanIn 1933, ten-year-old troublemaker Archie and his neglectful father have a strained relationship . Archie gets in the way of his father's attempts to clear a debt with Benny, a hardcore mobster only interested in serious business.