De Voortrekkers
director:
Harold M. Shaw
playwright:
Gustav Preller
/
Harold M. Shaw
actor:
Dick Cruikshanks
/
Caroline Frances Cooke
/
Jackie Turnbull
/
Bobby Rowson
/
Stephen Ewart
…
genre:
Drama
/
History
region:
South Africa
language:
no language
length: 54m
release date: 1916-12-14
IMDb: tt0180306
De Voortrekkers
Overview
This epic film was one of the first South African dramatic film productions. It tells the story of the Boers’ Great Trek at the end of the 1830s, concluding with a hegemonic reconstruction of the 1838 Battle of Blood River, where a few hundred armed Afrikaners defeated several thousand Zulus.