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Boetie Gaan Border Toe is a 1984 satire film set during the South African Border War. The film was directed by Regardt van den Bergh, and stars Arnold Vosloo, Frank Dankert and Frank Opperman. Production was assisted by the South African Defence Force (SADF).




Plot


Boetie van Tonder, a young Afrikaner, faces conscription into the South African military. Although initially determined to resist national service and defy instruction, he quickly finds comfort in the company of his fellow conscripts as they weather the harshness of basic training and their subsequent deployment to the Angolan border.




Cast


Arnold Vosloo as Boetie van Tonder
Eric Nobbs as Korporaal Botes
Frank Dankert as Dampies Ball
Kelsey Middleton as Jenny Ball
Janie du Plessis as Elize
Kerneels Coertzen as Davel
Pagel Kruger as Mnr. Moerdijk
William Abdul as James
Frank Opperman as De Kock
Blake Toerien as Piet Slabbert
Christo Loots as Sunshine
Neels Engelbrecht as Gattie
Rudi De Jager as Meyer
Bobbette Fouche as Mev. Moerdijk
Graham Clarke as Dokter
Gys de Villiers as Korporaal Smit
Jacques Loots as Politikus
Jana Cilliers as Lecturer (dosent)
Gretha Brazelle as Charmaine




Reception


Literary analyst Monica Popescu described Boetie Gaan Border Toe and its sequel, Boetie Op Manoeuvres, as works which essentially romanticised the South African Border War and devoted a disproportionate amount of emphasis to the "chivalrous conduct of SADF soldiers". Keyan Tomaselli of the University of Johannesburg criticised the film as "propagandistic".
Boetie Gaan Border Toe was a financial success, breaking South African box office records.




References






External links


Boetie Gaan Border Toe at IMDb

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• Boetie Gaan Border Toe
• Arnold Vosloo
• List of South African actors
• Frank Opperman (South African actor)
• List of Afrikaans-language films
• List of South African films
• Regardt van den Bergh
• Jana Cilliers
• List of South African slang words