Acting

Rod Alexander

Acting credits

Kaptein Caprivi poster
9.0

A group of white South African farmers in South West Africa are kidnapped by a terrorist group coming from across the border. Captain Caprivi is tasked with organizing a squad to rescue them.

Kaptein Caprivi

1972

Namibia: The Struggle for Liberation poster
6.0

Namibia: The Struggle for Liberation is a 2007 epic film on the Namibian independence struggle against South African occupation as seen through the life of Sam Nujoma, the leader of the South-West Africa People's Organisation and the first president of the Republic of Namibia.

Namibia: The Struggle for Liberation

2007

Windprints poster
6.5

A South African journalist is sent to Namibia to investigate a serial killer.

Windprints

1990

No artwork available
NR

When a group of terrorists hold tourists hostage in the Kariba Dam, Captain Caprivi and his team must perform heroic deeds in order to save them.

Attack on Kariba

1973

French Toast poster
6.2

Lisa discovers a long-held family secret and heads to France looking for answers, which yield unexpected results.

French Toast

2015

Five Star: The Final poster
NR

Five star (hotel) is a sarcastic reference to the Pretoria prison which is central to the plot. An inmate Skollie (A nickname meaning delinquent) escapes from jail with one desire, to be united with his son again. Life outside is much different to what Skollie remembers. Still behind bars are inmates Pappa, Priester and Polka, who are doing everything to prevent Skollie from being reunited with his son, even if that means they have to kill. Skollie discovers that Pappa might be responsible for the death of his mother and he vows revenge.

Five Star: The Final

1986

No artwork available
NR

Daan Bobbejee rescues a stranger, Doors Dorrengen, and they become friends. Together, they thwart diamond smugglers trying to steal Daan's valuable mine, outwitting them in a daring escape

Daan en Doors Oppie Dieggins

1975

Snip en Rissiepit poster
NR

This is a romantic drama about class and expectations, set on a university campus. Two Pretoria students, Joerie Anker (Snip) and Christina Burger (Rissiepit), are in love – to the chagrin of Christina’s better-off parents. Her mother thinks Joerie is not good enough for her daughter and her father, an influential member of the university hierarchy, threatens to have his grant suspended if he doesn't stop seeing his daughter. Parental pressure forces Christina to sever ties with Joerie and she starts seeing the arrogant Piet Stadler. But their relationship is doomed because of Piet’s intense jealousy of Joerie who, he believes, is still the love of Christina’s life. Piet vents his anger on Joerie and Christina when he bumps them off a bridge one night after the two have been out in Joerie’s jalopy. While Christina comes away with light injuries, Joerie has to fight for his life.

Snip en Rissiepit

1973

No artwork available
NR

Made in the 1970s, a time when South Africans were constantly being reminded about the communist onslaught, this features Hank (originally English-speaking) and Hennery (Afrikaans-speaking), two very laid-back secret agents who, together with a black colleague (Vriend), manage to foil a terrorist plot to take over the country. They are introduced as beach bums and for at least the first half the film comes across as a not very good buddy movie. For much of the time we're not too certain of just who they are and from whom they get their orders, though once in a while they speak to someone in Pretoria. On the way into the mountains of Lesotho, they pick up a girl (a communist agent who switches sides without any qualms when she falls in love with Hennery). The unlikely baddies are an Afrikaans-speaking group of communists, disguised as members of a monastic order. Interestingly, the agents' black comrade is treated throughout as an equal and the race question doesn't really come into it.

Hank, Hennery en Vriend

1976

Dans van die Flamink poster
NR

Four different people must learn to live together: a professor who has to destroy an ammunition shelter, his wife who is going to seek lost love, a writer and a young girl with just six months left to to live.

Dans van die Flamink

1974