New movie will enthrall moviegoers
The film boasts an impressive cast of both South African and British movie personalities.
DARK Matter Studios and Collective Dream Films recently completed the production of the feature film Modder en Bloed due for nationwide cinematic release in April.
Details around the production and film cast has been shrouded in secrecy for some time, but the silence can now be broken as the first promotional photographs have just been released.
Modder en Bloed relates the story of Willem Morkel, a Boer warrior and family man who loses his wife and only child during the Anglo-Boer War of 1899-1902 at the hands of British soldiers. Willem is incarcerated, with other Boer prisoners-of-war, on the St. Helena island in the Atlantic Ocean. The tyrannical Colonel Swannell (Grant Swanby), 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 endure and the inhuman suffering they have to bear, their resistance and quest for vengeance, by whatever means, becomes 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.
The film boasts an impressive cast of both South African and British movie personalities. Some of the well-known local stars are Bok van Blerk, Albert Maritz, Michael Richard, Edwin van der Walt, Jacques Bessenger, Altus Theart and Albert Pretorius and Deon Lotz. The British cast includes Charlotte Salt, Patrick Connolly, Nick Cornwall and Josh Myers.
View the full cast of movie stars at www.modderenbloedmovie.com
