The Recce

The Recce is a film by

Also known as Recce. The title is taken from the word used in the South African bush war of the 1970s-1980s to refer to someone sent out "on reconnaissance".

The film

Set in 1981, it tells of a recce, Henk Viljoen, wrongfully declared killed in action behind enemy lines on the Anglolan front and abandoned by his superiors. So his life becomes a race against all odds to survive, withs his mental and physical abilities tried to their limits as he navigates his way through the war zone to make his way home.

Sources

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6220002/?ref_=ttfc_fc_tt

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