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My Father's War
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My Father's War

Aug 5, 2016
1h 43m
★ 7.0

The truth will set you free

Overview

In this unique and riveting film, a troubled man has a series of dreams in which he finds himself thrown back to a time before his birth, into the Angolan Border War, as a combat soldier. There he meets his father as a young man, when he was a member of the Special Forces. As they go through combat together, the son gets to know his father in a way he never has, giving him insight and compassion, and he is able to let go of lifelong feelings of abandonment, resentment and anger. This leads to forgiveness and a real-life reconciliation, which drives home the underlying message of this film restoring the hearts of the fathers to the children and the hearts of the children to the fathers.

Genres

Drama
War

Production Companies

Sterkinekor Entertainment

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Cast

Stian Bam

Dawid Smit

Stian Bam

Edwin van der Walt

Benjamin 'Dap' Smit

Edwin van der Walt

Erica Wessels

Karina Smit

Erica Wessels

Fumani Shilubana

Floyd Mabela

Fumani Shilubana