Acting
Louis Van Niekerk
Born 1935-06-27 · South Africa
Acting credits
6.0An American reporter and an Afrikaans poet meet and fall in love while covering South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission hearings.
In My Country
2004
6.9The true story of a white South African racist whose life was profoundly altered by the black prisoner he guarded for twenty years. The prisoner's name was Nelson Mandela.
Goodbye Bafana
2007
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Tawwe Tienies
1984
South African military film. Currently does not have a VHS or DVD release
The Saboteurs
1974
4.4Estelle fights to maintain her sense of self while sleeping with Angus for money.
Ladygrey
2015
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
4.8A South African political prisoner is tortured to obtain information on apartheid conspirators. Ten years later, the head officer in charge of the questioning is similarly held as prisoner and questioned about his past offenses.
Inside
1996
5.7A group hires a guide to take them whitewater rafting down the Zambezi River in Africa, but what they don't know is that the guide is actually a deranged psychotic killer.
Damned River
1989
A farming family led by Grandpa Smit relocates to Cape Town in pursuit of a new life. Despite their limited means, their unity and unwavering pride become their pillars of strength.
Die Voortreflike Familie Smit
1965
Smith, the deaf and dumb son of a rural coloured preacher, refuses to accept the menial labour on offer in the small farming community where he’s grown up. He tries to earn a living in the city, but this ends in assault, and his return home sparks off a cycle of vengeful violence.
Jobman
1989
South African TV Movie
Heroes
1986
Tjokkie, his mother, and sister Tiemie live together on poverty row. Tjokkie has a gift of psychic ability and is prone to terrifying trances which allow him to see the future. His mother’s husband, a layabout called Giel Swart, sponges off her war pension. Meanwhile, Tiemie is in a relationship with an aggressive biker who has built a dangerous reputation around the suburbs.
Psychic in the Suburbs
1973
South African Movie
Pressure Burst
1971
6.7Rebecca Dreyer (Karen Zoid) is almost forty, lives with her mother (Marie du Toit) and works in a café in a small Karoo town. To escape her depressing life, Rebecca dreams of getting as far away as possible from her smothering mother and pursue the stardom her mother never experienced – that of a successful singer.
Susanna van Biljon
2010
Danie Bosman is a civil servant dreaming of being a composer. But this is Depression-era South Africa and no one is interested in buying his music. Then, one day, someone hears a song he composed for his son.
Danie Bosman: The Story of the Greatest South African composer
1969