Katrina (film)
Katrina is a 1969 South African drama film directed by Jans Rautenbach and starring Katinka Heyns, and Don Leonard.[1] Based on a play called Try for White by D Warner, the film depicts the lives of a family of a Coloured South Africans, who in the apartheid system are considered neither white nor black, in which Katrina, the daughter, attempts to appear white, before her secret is exposed.[2] The screenplay was written by Emil Nofal.
Cast[]
- Katinka Heyns - Alida Brink
- - Catherine Winters / Katrina September
- Don Leonard - Kimberley
- - Adam September
- Joe Stewardson - Father Alex Trewellyn
- Carel Trichardt - Mr. Brink
References[]
- ^ Katrina (1969), British Film Institute
- ^ South African Cinema 1896–2010, Martin Botha, Intellect Books, 2012, page 64
Bibliography[]
- Tomaselli, Keyan. The cinema of apartheid: race and class in South African film. Routledge, 1989.
External links[]
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- 1969 films
- South African films
- 1969 drama films
- Afrikaans-language films
- Apartheid films
- Films about racism
- Films about race and ethnicity
- Films shot in South Africa
- Films directed by Jans Rautenbach
- South African drama films
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