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Manie van Rensburg

Born January 1, 1945 · Krugersdorp, South Africa

Died January 1, 1993 · aged 48

Van Rensburg, born in Krugersdorp in 1945, was never easy to categorize. He was described in 1983 in the Cape Argus as “a director with the talent and skill that could eventually put him with the ranks of the world’s best”; and South African film historian Martin Botha describes his development as a filmmaker as the chronicler of “the Afrikaner psyche during three significant periods: firstly, the…

Known For

The Fourth ReichThe Fourth Reich · 1990
The Fourth Reich
★ 6.01990
MovieDrama
Robey Leibbrandt was a South African boxer who became fascinated with Nazi ideology during the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin. In1939 he led an operation to overthrow the pro-Allied government of General Jan Smuts.
Taxi to SowetoTaxi to Soweto · 1991
Taxi to Soweto
1991
MovieDramaComedy
A Gentle story with a moral of forgive and forget at the kernel of its’ comedy exterior ~ but also one that accurately foretold the changes that were to sweep across South Africa in 1994, as an uptight suburban Johannesburg housewife (Elize Cawood, with an equally uptight husband played by Marius Weyers) accepts a lift from a Sowetan taxi driver (Patrick Shai) and gets taken into another world entirely
The Bank RobberThe Bank Robber · 1973
The Bank Robber
1973
Movie
The son of a banker decides to steal money from the bank to double it through gambling and then returning it. Unfortunately for him, he is being watched as he succeeds, and interesting events and twists follow.
The Native Who Caused All the TroubleThe Native Who Caused All the Trouble · 1990
The Native Who Caused All the Trouble
★ 8.01990
Movie
True story of a man who believes God owns the earth and land cannot be owned by anyone, therefore he's at liberty to build his church on ground occupied by others.
GeluksdalGeluksdal · 1974
Geluksdal
1974
Movie
"Dam Bouers" is Coming to Gluksdal to Build a Dam, Everyone is for it Except Pinkie and Her Father Because the Dam is going to Flood their Farm
The SquareThe Square · 1975
The Square
1975
Movie
A traditional famer seen as the new voice of Afrikaners. He crumbles when his wife leaves him for another man
WillemWillem · 1976
Willem
1976
SeriesComedyMystery
The first Afrikaans comedy series for television, about a bumbling private detective with a good heart and a talent for grabbing the wrong end of the stick. Willem would like nothing more than to be an average P.I. who focusses on simple divorce cases, but he keeps getting mixed up in more adventurous and dangerous affairs. His secretary Pennie is a kind, simple girl with her head in the clouds.

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