The Story of an African Farm
2004•1h 37m•5.8•Released
DramaFamily
The 1870's. South Africa. Life is normal at the farm on the slopes of a Karoo Kopje.Things change when the sinister, eccentric Bonaparte Blenkins with bulbous nose and chimney pot hat arrives. Their childhood is disrupted by the bombastic Irishman who claims blood ties with Wellington and Queen Victoria and so gains uncanny influence over the girls' gross stupid stepmother.
Director
David Lister
Writer
Thandi Brewer, Bonnie Rodini, Olive Schreiner
Languages
English
Studio
Rodini Films
Cast
Luke Gallant
Waldo
Kasha Kropinski
Lyndall
Armin Mueller-Stahl
Otto
Karin van der Laag
Tent Sannie
Anneke Weidemann
Em
Richard E. Grant
Bonaparte Blenkins
Production
Company
Rodini Films
Producer
Bonnie Rodini
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