Moedertjie

Screening Details

Running Time: 30 min. (Black and White) / Copyright Date: not given / Release Date: 2 October 1931 / Language: Afrikaans / Genre: Drama / Alternative Titles: none.

Synopsis

Though made in 1931, this short is set in 1914, a time when many young Afrikaners were leaving the rural areas to make their way to the big cities. It follows Tante Koester and her husband as they travel from their Bosveld home to Maraisburg in the hope of finding their son, Hendrik, from whom they haven’t heard for two years. Because they arrive late in the evening, they decide to spend the night in the waiting room at the station, where they are joined by a young woman who turns out to be their son’s ex-girlfriend. Late arrivals are a policeman and his prisoner, the latter being none other than their long-lost son....