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MOFFIE

By Oliver HERMANUS

SALZGEBER & CO. MEDIEN GMBH - as DISTR Theatrical, TV, DVD-video, VOD, Airline, GERMANY, German speaking

Drama - Completed 2019

A young conscript’s task to survive his military service is made all the more difficult when a connection is sparked between him and a fellow recruit.

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& Awards

Venice - Biennale 2019

Orizzonti

- Year of production
- 2019
- Genres
- Drama, LGBT
- Countries
- SOUTH AFRICA
- Languages
- ENGLISH, AFRIKAANS
- Duration
- 103 mn
- Director(s)
- Oliver HERMANUS
- Producer(s)
- Eric ABRAHAM (Portobello Productions), Jack SIDEY (Portobello Productions)
- Synopsis
- To be a moffie is to be weak, effeminate, illegal. The year is 1981 and South Africa’s white minority government is embroiled in a conflict on the southern Angolan border. Like all white boys over the age of 16, Nicholas Van der Swart must complete two years of compulsory military service to defend the Apartheid regime. The threat of communism and “die swart gevaar” (the so-called black danger) is at an all-time high. But that’s not the only danger Nicholas faces. He must survive the brutality of the army – something that becomes even more difficult when a connection is sparked between him and a fellow recruit.

MOFFIE

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