Acting

Jana Cilliers

Born January 1, 1950 (age 76)

Jana CILLIERS, Actress. (1950-) Daughter of renowned painter Betty-Cilliers Barnard, she studied acting at the University of Pretoria and London’s RADA, before returning to South Africa in the 1970's to become part of the new generation of bilingual performers working for the various Performing Arts Councils, as well as the independent companies such as The Space in Cape Town, The Market Theatre i…

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The Visual Bible: Acts

The Visual Bible: Acts · 1994

The Visual Bible: Acts

MovieHistoryDrama

The Visual Bible: Acts is a 1994 film that depicts the events of Book of Acts from the Bible's New Testament. All of the dialogue is word-for-word Scripture, taken directly from the New International Version of the Bible.

Eendag op 'n Reëndag

Eendag op 'n Reëndag · 1975

Eendag op 'n Reëndag

A man deep in debt goes to a gamblinghouse to get the money he needs to pay it of but one of his friends come along and sees that the gambler man has cheated and so he killed him

Place Under the Sun

Place Under the Sun · 1979

Place Under the Sun

MovieRomanceDrama

A dreaded sickness destroys Karen Viljoen life as rich man's wife. She is diagnosed as leprous. While Karen is in the Westford hospital with her sickness, her husband Otto finds solace with his secretary. To top it all Karen's son is taken away from her. Her doctor, Tertius Louw, intervenes just in time.

A Private Life

A Private Life · 1989

MovieDramaTV Movie

Jack and Stella were unable to marry in South Africa because she was classified as coloured. They persevere by living together in a mixed neighborhood, but their son Paul will suffer when he is unable to marry his white girlfriend Andrea.

Boetie Goes to the Border

Boetie Goes to the Border · 1984

Boetie Goes to the Border

Boetie is the type of guy who will do anything to get out of military service. Until his father makes him an offer he can't refuse. Its a story of a rich kid who learns the value of being a man.

A Pot of Winter

A Pot of Winter · 1992

A Pot of Winter

The traumatic experience of a standard 9 (grade 11) Elizabeth who feels the influence of her parents divorce, during a period of sexual awakening. Based on the novel by Maretha Maartens.

Niemand weint für immer

Niemand weint für immer · 1984

Niemand weint für immer

Quest for Love

Quest for Love · 1988

Set against a political backdrop in Africa, the story spanning several years, unfolds around the powerful interaction between two women, their strong sexual allure, and their search to find meaning through it all.

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The Visual Bible: Acts

The Visual Bible: Acts · 1994

The Visual Bible: Acts

MovieHistoryDrama

The Visual Bible: Acts is a 1994 film that depicts the events of Book of Acts from the Bible's New Testament. All of the dialogue is word-for-word Scripture, taken directly from the New International Version of the Bible.

Priscilla

Eendag op 'n Reëndag

Eendag op 'n Reëndag · 1975

Eendag op 'n Reëndag

A man deep in debt goes to a gamblinghouse to get the money he needs to pay it of but one of his friends come along and sees that the gambler man has cheated and so he killed him

Place Under the Sun

Place Under the Sun · 1979

Place Under the Sun

MovieRomanceDrama

A dreaded sickness destroys Karen Viljoen life as rich man's wife. She is diagnosed as leprous. While Karen is in the Westford hospital with her sickness, her husband Otto finds solace with his secretary. To top it all Karen's son is taken away from her. Her doctor, Tertius Louw, intervenes just in time.

Karen Viljoen

A Private Life

A Private Life · 1989

MovieDramaTV Movie

Jack and Stella were unable to marry in South Africa because she was classified as coloured. They persevere by living together in a mixed neighborhood, but their son Paul will suffer when he is unable to marry his white girlfriend Andrea.

Stella Joubert

Boetie Goes to the Border

Boetie Goes to the Border · 1984

Boetie Goes to the Border

Boetie is the type of guy who will do anything to get out of military service. Until his father makes him an offer he can't refuse. Its a story of a rich kid who learns the value of being a man.

Professor

A Pot of Winter

A Pot of Winter · 1992

A Pot of Winter

The traumatic experience of a standard 9 (grade 11) Elizabeth who feels the influence of her parents divorce, during a period of sexual awakening. Based on the novel by Maretha Maartens.

Die Vrou

Niemand weint für immer

Niemand weint für immer · 1984

Niemand weint für immer

Quest for Love

Quest for Love · 1988

Set against a political backdrop in Africa, the story spanning several years, unfolds around the powerful interaction between two women, their strong sexual allure, and their search to find meaning through it all.

Alexandra

Blink Stefaans

Blink Stefaans · 1981

MovieComedyRomance

Fanus is a nerdy sound technician who is never noticed by anyone, and especially not by the boss’s pretty but temperamental daughter, Linda. All this changes with the arrival of alter ego 'Blink Stefaans', who has plenty of advice for Fanus, from how to be more assertive to how to dress. 'Blink' translates to bright or shiny. Suddenly Fanus life changes into a roller-coaster ride of ups and downs. Blink Stefaans, in this gentle romantic comedy.

Linda Rossouw

Binnelanders

Binnelanders · 2005

A South African Afrikaans soap opera. It is set in and around the fictional private hospital, Binneland Kliniek, in Pretoria, and the storyline follows the trials, trauma and tribulations of the staff and patients of the hospital.

Joeke Rossouw

Screen Two

Screen Two · 1985

Series of single made-for-television dramas.

Stella Joubert

Die Boekklub

Die Boekklub · 2016

The series tells the story of Tom Niemandt who receives an unexpected call that leads him to the Karoo. While trying to make sense of Merweville, the village in the Karoo, he meets a group of people who change his life irrevocably.

Anna Uys

Feast of the Uninvited

Feast of the Uninvited · 2008

Feast of the Uninvited

Feast of the Uninvited (also known as Fees van die Ongenooides) is a South African period drama miniseries created by PG du Plessis and set during the Boer War which focuses on the lives of those who had to endure and suffer through it. The war became the ultimate test of who they really were for Captain Brooks, Harry the Welsh miner, the wealthy Van Wyk family and people like Daantjie van Wyk and his beautiful wife, Magrieta.

Magrieta van Wyk