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KROTOA

By Roberta DURRANT

SHORELINE ENTERTAINMENT - as SALES All rights, World

Historical - Completed 2017

Torn apart by those she wanted to bring together

- Year of production
- 2017
- Genres
- Historical, Biography, Drama
- Countries
- SOUTH AFRICA
- Languages
- AFRIKAANS
- Duration
- 117 mn
- Director(s)
- Roberta DURRANT
- Writer(s)
- Kaye Ann WILLIAMS, Margaret GOLDSMID
- Cast
- Crystal-Donna ROBERTA, Armand AUCAMP, Jacques BESSENGER, Deon LOTZ, Brendon DANIELS, Roeline DANEEL, Marcel VAN HEERDEN
- Producer(s)
- Roberta DURRANT
- Synopsis
- Krotoa, a feisty, bright, young 11 year old girl is removed from her close-knit Khoi tribe to serve Jan van Riebeeck, her uncle’s trading partner. She is brought into the first Fort established by the Dutch East India Company in 1652. There she grows into a visionary young woman who assimilates the Dutch language and culture so well that she rises to become an influential interpreter for van Riebeeck who became the first Governor of the Cape Colony. As such Krotoa ends up being rejected by her own Khoi people and destroyed by the Dutch when she tries to find the middle way between the two cultures.