De Voortrekkers

De Voortrekkers
Dick Cruikshanks as Piet Retief
Directed by Harold M. Shaw
Produced by Arrow Film Corporation
Screenplay by Gustav Preller, Harold M. Shaw
Starring Percy Marmont, Edna Flugrath, Harold M. Shaw, Goba
Cinematography Henry Howse
Release date
 1916
Running time
 54'
Country South Africa

De Voortrekkers is a 1916 film.

Synopsis

This 1916 epic film was one of the first South African dramatic film productions. It tells the story of the Boers’ Great Trek at the end of the 1830s, concluding with a hegemonic reconstruction of the 1838 Battle of Blood River, where a few hundred armed Afrikaners defeated several thousand Zulus. Commemorating as it did their view of a highly contentious period of history, the film came to be revered by Afrikaners. It enjoyed a long after-life in South African classrooms and was shown annually on the date of the Battle of Blood River.

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