One of Broomfield’s finest films, this award-winning documentary first shown on Channel 4’s ‘True Stories’ timeslot, shows what happens when the apparently shambolic Broomfield tries to make a film about the neo-Nazi Afrikaner Resistance movement and its leader Eugene Terreblanche. The result is both frightening and hilarious, as Broomfield lulls his subjects into portraying themselves in their true light and deflates the pompous rhetoric by refusing to take it seriously. As Broomfield reduces ‘the Leader’ to apolexy by turning up late for his interview, and disrupts the triumphalism of the Kruger Day rally by his bumbling, one wants to get up and cheer.
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Collection
In ACMI's collection
Credits
Collection metadata
ACMI Identifier
308326
Language
English
Audience classification
G
Subject categories
Documentary → Documentary films - South Africa
Economics, Philosophy, Politics, Religion & Sociology → Anti-apartheid movements - South Africa
Economics, Philosophy, Politics, Religion & Sociology → Racism
Economics, Philosophy, Politics, Religion & Sociology → South Africa - Politics and government
Economics, Philosophy, Politics, Religion & Sociology → South Africa - Social conditions
Sound/audio
Sound
Colour
Colour
Holdings
VHS; Access Print (Section 1)
MOV file ProRes4444; Digital Preservation Master - overscan
MPEG-4 Digital File; ACMI Digital Access Copy - overscan