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97 minutes
Rated: R
English and Afrikaans with English
subtitles
Country: Canada, South Africa
Studio: Strand Releasing
Cast: Brett Goldin, Jeroen
Kranenburg, Rouxnet Brown, Tessa
Jubber
Director/Screenwriter: John
Greyson, Jack Lewis |
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A recreation of the decade-long love
affair in the 18th century in a Cape
Town penal colony on Robin Island.
The two lovers were a Dutch sailor
imprisoned there for sodomy and a
young Khoi herder. The Khoi were
part of the Hottentot tribal group
and as such were the untouchables of
that time. The two were placed on
trial and this love affair and the
legal battles are the grist of
Greyson and Lewis' film based partly
on court transcripts from the time.
In South Africa, during the 1700s,
sodomy was a crime deemed worse than
murder, and the fact that these two
young men had indulged in it was
also complicated by the fact that
this was an interracial love affair. |
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