On the big screen: Modder en Bloed
Starring: Charlotte Salt, Bok van Blerk, Altus Theart, Grant Swanby and Stian Bam.
Directed by: Sean Else.
Modder en Bloed tells the story of Willem Morkel, a Boer warrior and family man, whose wife and only child were killed by British soldiers during the Anglo-Boer War of 1899 to 1902.
Willem is incarcerated with other Boer prisoners of war on the island of St Helena in the Atlantic Ocean.
The tyrannical Colonel Swannell, a hot-headed imperialist with a consuming hatred for the Afrikaner, is in charge of the English concentration camp.
Boer prisoners of war are subjected to the most brutal violence and degrading treatment.
They are constantly humiliated by the British commander and his soldiers in an effort to break them down emotionally and to physically cripple them.
But, despite the untold torture they have to endure and the inhumane suffering they have to bear, their resistance and quest for vengeance, by whatever means, become stronger and stronger by the day.
So, when the gauntlet is thrown down, Willem and his fellow prisoners rise to the challenge, eventually leading to sweet revenge in the most important rugby match of their lives.
