Wild Maneuvres

Jun 25, 1985

1h 25m

★ 5.9

Overview

Military-Comedy. Sequel to "Boetie gaan border toe". Boetie (Translated into English as 'Buddy' or "Brother") wants to win his girlfriend Liza back, who just dumped him. With the help of some money, he engineers that she is assigned as reporter to the planned manoeuvres, where he would love to impress her. However, things turn out different as Buddy and his comrades are assigned to do the manual labour during the manoeuvres, and the arrogant Captain humiliating them turns out to be Liza's new boyfriend. But when a bunch of criminal madmen disturb the manoeuvre and take a hostage, it is up to Buddy and his comrades to rescue the hostage, their honour - and the girl's love.

Genres

Comedy

Production Companies

Philo Pieterse Productions

Wild Maneuvres Trailers

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Cast

Boetie van Tonder

Arnold Vosloo

Elize

Janie du Plessis

Corp. White

Ian Roberts

The Horror

Paul Slabolepszy

De Kock

Frank Opperman

Davel

Kerneels Coertzen

Capt. Schuster

Anton Dekker

Liz

Tracey Morris

Chinatown

Nick Lorentz

Lulu

Miriam Munitz

Gattie

Neels Engelbrecht

Veertjie

Greg Latter

It's time for Jonsson to return to his old regiment to rehearse what he learned during conscription a few years ago. He meets his old friends, platoon leader Larsson and the music loving captain 'Beethoven'. Jonsson and his comrades doesn't take it very serious - but they have a jolly good time. A female journalist follows the exercise to write an article, and gets interested in him. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.

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