Blood & Glory

Blood and Glory
Blood and Glory
	Modder en Bloed
Directed by
Produced by	Sean Else
Cinematography
Edited by
Music by	Quinn Lubbe
Distributed by	Ster Kinekor
Release date	April 2016;
Country	South Africa
Languages	English; Afrikaans

Blood and Glory (Afrikaans: Modder en Bloed) is a feature film that was released to cinema in April 2016 in South Africa. The film, set during the Second Boer War in 1901, is a period drama that follows Willem Morkel, a Cape Rebel Boer/Afrikaans farmer who was captured and sent to a British prisoner of war camp on St. Helena Island in the Atlantic Ocean. Placed under terrible oppression and hardship, Morkel and his comrades slowly come together to assert their defiance, humanity and human spirit and, more specifically, through the game of rugby.^{[citation needed]}

Blood and Glory is a fictional account, using the backdrop of the Anglo-Boer War with some of the places in the plot resembling historical locations from the war. The film's protagonist, Willem Morkel, is loosely based on , who went on to play for the South Africa national rugby union team.

The historical authenticity of backdrop events, conditions and attitudes in the plot of the film can be debated, as its depiction of the Boers and the British relies heavily on glorification of the former and vilification of the latter. It is documented that 28 000 Boer women and children, as well as 20 000 black people, died in British concentration camps (Professor Fransjohan, 2011 writing for BBC). The film also makes mention of the scorched earth policy implemented by Kitchener during the Boer War.

Blood and Glory is a co-production by and Collective Dream Films. The film is written and directed by (Spud 2, , ), and produced by (Leading Lady and ) and (Leading Lady, Fanie Fourie's Lobola, , , Bakgat Trilogy and )

Cast[]

Blood and Glory includes a strong South African male cast, along with five international actors – a first for a South African film:

[af] as Willem Morkel
Charlotte Salt as Katherine Sterndale
as Colonel Swannel
as Finn Kelly
as Isak Naude
as Governor Sterndale
Bok van Blerk as Kommandant Gideon Scheepers
Altus Theart as Daniel 'Yster' Malherbe
as Phil Blignaut
as Marius Prinsloo
as Eddie Mijnhardt
as Lt. Butler
as Gawie Mentz
as Giepie 'Rot' Nel
as Johnny Pienaar
as Sgt.Skirving
as JJ 'Ratel' Wessels
Josh Myers as Corporal Evans
Deon Lotz as Maartens
as Wynand Cronjé
as Os le Grange
Benedikt Sebastian as Greyling
as Captain Edwards
as Longtom Van Tonder

The film also features appearances from well-known South African actors , , , and .

Production[]

Filming took place during winter in the Western Cape, South Africa in 2015, specifically in the Worcester area and parts of Cape Town. Some sequences were filmed on a boat off the coast of Hout Bay.

Distribution[]

The film was released on 1 April 2016 in South Africa via distribution partners of the film Ster Kinekor to 51 cinemas nationwide. The film stayed in cinema for a total of 8 weeks, leaving all sites in South Africa on 19 May 2016.

The producers of the film are currently in talks with the following territories for international distribution of Blood & Glory:

UK and Ireland
USA & Canada
Europe
Asia
Australia
New Zealand
Latin America

Blood & Glory

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