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Fiela's Child (1988)
Directed by Katinka Heyns
Overview
The acclaimed drama based on Dalene Matthee´s award-winning novel. “Fiela se Kind” (Fiela’s Child) is the story of a white foundling boy that is raised by a brown family. But the childs life changes irrevocably when white census officials discover him living across the established borders of society, and he is removed from his foster parents. “This is the moving story about a close family being torn apart by the social convictions of the day. It is the story of a mother´s enduring love and hope to see her taken son again. Fiela is a down to earth woman farmer who does not let anyone step on her. She raised a white castaway child, Benjamin, and teaches him the simple things in life.”
Length 105 minutes
Actors
Lida Botha | Louw Verwey | Dawid Minnaar | Ernst Eloff | Goliath Davids | Jan Ellis | Shaleen Surtie-Richards | Cobus Visser | Alex Heyns | Schalk Jacobsz | Hermien Dommisse | Flip Theron | André Rossouw | Marchelle Verwey | Annie Malan | Limpie Basson | Isobella Bosman | Jacques Loots | Dalene Matthee | Gamiet Petersen | Gerrit Snyman | Ted Whitehead | Kamalie Kamalodien