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BEAUTIFUL IN BEAUFORT-WES (2006) (53:47)
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Identifier: DAM001
Beaufort West lies in the Great Karoo and most people regard it merely as the town you pass through on your way from Cape Town to Johannesburg. However, people do live there and one of them is the poet and singer Gert Vlok Nel (b. 1963). This documentary, shot in 2005, was made by a Dutch filmmaker and deals with Nel and a few of the kind of the people who feature so prominently in his work. Nel himself only speaks through his poems and ballads, but his father Albert, with whom he lives, is a...
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THE CALL OF THE KARROO (1954) (20:41)
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Identifier: dam002
A newly married couple, Steve and Ann, arrive on the Karoo sheep farm Steve runs together with his father. A city girl, it will be a new experience for Ann, who is introduced to life on the farm by her husband and father-in-law. Activities are followed over a period of a year, from the lambing season to the shearing of the flock of some 3,000 sheep. It also touches upon the inevitable set-backs, which include drought, various illnesses to which sheep are prone and the menace of a predator jac...
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