Writing
Manie van Rensburg
Born — Died
1945-01-01 — 1993-01-01
Place of birth
Krugersdorp, South Africa
Known for
Writing
Credits
21 titles
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 1930s and the trauma of urbanization; secondly, the revival of Afrikaner nationalism in the 1940s; and thirdly, the modern urban Afrikaner of the 1970s and 1980s”. Van Rensburg was obsessed with film from an early age. He bought his first movie camera at age 14 with his earnings as a church organis…
Known for
6.0Robey 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.
The Fourth Reich
1990
8.0True 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.
The Native Who Caused All the Trouble
1990
A Lonely Man Falls in Love With an English Woman He Meets on His Way to Work in Hillbrow
Freddie's in Love
1971
A Test Group Travels to The Kalahari Desert
The Mantis Project
1987
South African TV Movie
Heroes
1986
NRA 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
Taxi to Soweto
1991
Behind the camera
6.0Robey 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.
The Fourth Reich
1990
8.0True 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.
The Native Who Caused All the Trouble
1990
A Lonely Man Falls in Love With an English Woman He Meets on His Way to Work in Hillbrow
Freddie's in Love
1971
A Lonely Man Falls in Love With an English Woman He Meets on His Way to Work in Hillbrow
Freddie's in Love
1971
A Lonely Man Falls in Love With an English Woman He Meets on His Way to Work in Hillbrow
Freddie's in Love
1971
A Test Group Travels to The Kalahari Desert
The Mantis Project
1987
South African TV Movie
Heroes
1986
South African TV Movie
Heroes
1986
South African TV Movie
Heroes
1986
NRA 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
Taxi to Soweto
1991
NRA 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
Taxi to Soweto
1991
NRA traditional famer seen as the new voice of Afrikaners. He crumbles when his wife leaves him for another man
The Square
1975
NRA traditional famer seen as the new voice of Afrikaners. He crumbles when his wife leaves him for another man
The Square
1975
NRThe 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 Bank Robber
1973
NRThe 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 Bank Robber
1973
South African Film
The Lighthouse
1984
South African Film
The Lighthouse
1984
South African TV Movie
Anna Meintjies
1983
South African TV Movie
Anna Meintjies
1983
NR"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
Geluksdal
1974
South African TV Movie
The Horse Smuggler
1982