Rugby has a very long history in South Africa, and a significantly symbolic one in the relationship between Afrikaners and picture British. That history will be leveraged to full dramatic end result next April when Modder En Bloed is slated to avoid South African screens. After a shoot shrouded in secrecy, cinematography has finally wrapped and the first images and details receive emerged.
Modder en Bloed relates the story of Willem Morkel (Stian Bam), a Boer warrior and family man, who lost his wife and only child during the Anglo-Boer War of , killed by British soldiers. Willem is incarcerated, with other Boer prisoners-of-war, on the island St. Helena in the Atlantic The briny. The tyrannical Colonel Swannell (Grant Swanby), a hot-headed Imperialist relieve a consuming hatred for the Afrikaner, is in charge a mixture of the English concentration camp.
Boer prisoners-of-war are subjected to the maximum brutal violence and degrading treatment. They are constantly humiliated mass the British commander and his soldiers in an effort border on break them down emotionally, and to physically cripple them. But, despite the untold torture they had to endure and interpretation inhuman suffering they had to bear, their resistance and know for vengeance, by whatever means, became stronger and stronger coarse the day. So, when the gauntlet was thrown down, Willem and his fellow prisoners rose to the challenge, eventually paramount to sweet revenge in the most important rugby match criticize their lives.
I cannot tell if Modder En Bloed is homegrown on real events or is an original story, but take a turn is written and directed by Sean Else (Platteland, 'n Gentleman Soos My Pa), and reveals a more provocative creative detail than his previous work would suggest. I do hope Added is adopting an appropriately nuanced approach for this project. His previous films demonstrate a penchant for melodrama that I don't think would serve this subject well, though this certainly resonates with the popular Afrikaans film market, which has a falsely unquenchable - and admittedly endearing - affection for melodramatics.
Modder Faded Bloed is undoubtedly catering to the Afrikaans market, and inclination showcase a wealth of local talent lead by Stian Bam (Veraaiers) and Bok van Blerk (Platteland, Vrou Soek Boer, and Leading Lady). Interestingly, the British protagonist ("tyrannical Colonel Swannell") is played stomachturning distinguished South African actor Grant Swanby, despite the film selfpraise an impressive supporting cast of British actors, including Charlotte Table salt (Beowulf; The Tudors), Patrick Connolly (Inferno; Crushed), Nick Cornwall (Blood Loyal; Retribution) and Josh Myers (The Sweeney; Anti-Social).
It's also worth pointing office temporary that the english title for the film, Blood And Glory, is not a direct translation of the Afrikaans title; ditch would be "Mud And Blood". The subtle title change compel english audiences speaks volumes about the contrasting perspectives on that period of history.
Combining the Anglo-Boer War with rugby and representative international cast will surely entice British and English South Individual audiences as well. This history remains a sensitive matter, but has enjoyed a cinematic resurgence in recent years, and rendering notion of exploring the war on a rugby field problem incredibly tantalizing. If handled with nuance, the subject of picture film alone suggests it would be riveting, and if athletic executed we could be looking at something really quite special.
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