African Gothic

Jul 20, 2013

1h 30m

★ 10.0

Blood is thicker than water...

Overview

On an isolated farm in Apartheid South Africa two lovers find themselves at risk of losing everything to a big city lawyer; they will stop at nothing to prevent him from exposing a dark family secret.

Genres

Drama

Production Companies

12:21 Productions

Senderwood Films

Digimoric Productions

African Gothic Trailers

Cast

Frikkie

Damon Shalit

Sussie

Chella Ferrow

Grove

Jonny Coyne

Alina

Connie Jackson

Mother

Maria Olsen

Father

Glen Vaughan

Young Frikkie

David Verne

Young Sussie

Aviv Gadi

Girl in dream

Irina Krichely

Radio (voice)

Maish Shalit

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