Fiela se Kind

2019
2 Std.

IMDb-BEWERTUNG

6,8/10

115

IHRE BEWERTUNG

Wayne Smith, Brett Michael Innes, and Zenobia Kloppers in Fiela se Kind (2019)

Southern Africa, 1880. A coloured woman living in the arid Karoo takes in a lost white child and raises him as her own. Nine years later, the boy is removed and forced to live in the Knysna Forest with a family of woodcutters who claim that he is theirs. Based on the beloved novel by Dalene Matthee, the film was adapted for screen by Brett Michael Innes and stars Zenobia Kloppers, Wayne Smith and Luca Bornman. 'Toe Vind Ek Jou' by Margot Rothman Arrangement by Loki Rothman & Kyle Shepherd Written by Karen Greeff / Francois Bardendhorst / Jedd Kossew

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Füge eine Handlung in deiner Sprache hinzuA coloured woman living in the arid Karoo takes in a lost white child and raises him as her own. Nine years later, the boy is removed and forced to live in the Knysna Forest with a family of... Alles lesenA coloured woman living in the arid Karoo takes in a lost white child and raises him as her own. Nine years later, the boy is removed and forced to live in the Knysna Forest with a family of woodcutters who claim that he is theirs.A coloured woman living in the arid Karoo takes in a lost white child and raises him as her own. Nine years later, the boy is removed and forced to live in the Knysna Forest with a family of woodcutters who claim that he is theirs.

Regie
- Brett Michael Innes
Drehbuch
- Brett Michael Innes
- Dalene Matthee
Hauptbesetzung

Siehe Produktionsinformationen bei IMDbPro

IMDb-BEWERTUNG

6,8/10

115

IHRE BEWERTUNG

Regie
- Brett Michael Innes
Drehbuch
- Brett Michael Innes
- Dalene Matthee
Hauptbesetzung

Siehe Produktionsinformationen bei IMDbPro

Auszeichnungen
- 7 Gewinne & 29 Nominierungen insgesamt

Ausgewählte Rezension

9/10

Comparisons are Odious

Yet when two film versions of the same novel are made, it's somehow impossible not to compare.

I'm in the habit of never reading reports or reviews on films or theatre shows before seeing it myself. The following is therefore my uninfluenced and undiluted opinion.

Let me start off by saying that I've seen various stage productions and synch translated the Chris Barnard (screenplay) Katinka Heyns (direction) 1987 version of Fiela se Kind from Afrikaans to English. Moreover, I met Dalene Matthee in 1978, became friends and read the novel on publication in 1985. I'm therefore more than acquainted with the plot/story and characters.

Brett Michael Innes's treatment both in scriptwriting and direction is laudably restrained and austere. In his retelling of this tale of fate, cruelty and tragedy, the central theme speaks crystal clear: love knows no boundaries, a mother's love least of all.

IMDb is not the place, neither has the space, to do a dissertation, Suffice it to say that I was not reduced to tears, but to sobs, owing to that exact honesty, sincerity and restraint.

Fiela se Kind the movie 1987 was a good movie and the character a performance. Even a good performance. With a great performance by Lida Botha as Berta van Rooyen, the forest mother. Fiela se Kind 2019 is an experience and the character by means of Zenobia Kloppers a human being. She ripped my heart out. So did the other characters. Not a trace of acting. Honesty, simplicity, sincerity. There is nothing ostentatious or showy.

The contrast between the whitewashed KleinKaroo farmstead and the forest hut speaks volumes in itself. Coloured people sitting at table eating with cutlery versus whites using their hands. Class is not confined to colour or race,