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The 1870’s. South Africa. Life is normal at the farm on the slopes of a Karoo Kopje. Fat Tant Sannie (Karin van der Laag) looks after her charges, the sweet Em (Anneke Weidemann) and the independent Lyndall (Kasha Kropinski), with a strict Biblical hand – it was Em’s father’s dying wish. Gentle Otto (Armin Mueller-Stahl), the farm manager, runs the farm and cares for Waldo, his son. Waldo (Luke Gallant) is bright, and busy building a model of a sheep-shearing machine that he hopes will make them all rich. Things change when the sinister, eccentric Bonaparte Blenkins (Richard E. Grant) with bulbous nose and chimney pot hat arrives. Their childhood is disrupted by the bombastic Irishman who claims blood ties with Wellington and Queen Victoria and so gains uncanny influence over the girls’ gross stupid stepmother, Tant Sannie. As the story of Lyndall, Em and Waldo unfolds to its touching end, we learn not merely of a backwater in colonial history, but of the whole human condition.
Original Release
10/08/2004
US Release
10/08/2004
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Cast
Name | Character |
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Richard E. Grant | Bonaparte Blenkins |
Armin Mueller-Stahl | Otto |
Kasha Kropinski | Lyndall |
Luke Gallant | Waldo |
Anneke Weidemann | Em |
Elriza Swanepoel | Trana |
Nichol Petersen | Tant Sannie's Maid |
Abbe-Gail Hartogh | Maid 2 |
Linda Louw | Maid 3 |
Chris-Jan Steenkamp | Sheep Shearer |
Directors
Writers
Olive Schreiner, Bonnie Rodini, Thandi Brewer
Cast
Name | Character |
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Richard E. Grant | Bonaparte Blenkins |
Armin Mueller-Stahl | Otto |
Kasha Kropinski | Lyndall |
Luke Gallant | Waldo |
Anneke Weidemann | Em |
Elriza Swanepoel | Trana |
Nichol Petersen | Tant Sannie's Maid |
Abbe-Gail Hartogh | Maid 2 |
Linda Louw | Maid 3 |
Chris-Jan Steenkamp | Sheep Shearer |
Ibrahim Adams | Blacksmith |
Clive Smith | Labourer1 |
Jan Bobbejee | Farm Labourer 2 |
Willem Saulse | Farm Labourer 2 |
Ronnie Hoskins | Waldo's Buggy Cart Driver |
Karin van der Laag | Tant Sannie / Tent Sannie |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Bonnie Rodini | Executive Producer |
Ross Garland | Executive Producer |
Charles Champion | Producer |
Cindy Rodkin | Producer |
Bonnie Rodini | Producer |