Canary

  • Music
  • Drama
8/26/2018
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Storyline

Kanarie (Afrikaans for 'Canary') is a coming-of-age musical war drama. Drafted into the South African army during apartheid, a young soldier joins the military's traveling choir, and romance on the battlefield causes him to deal with his long-repressed sexual identity through hardship, camaraderie, first love, and the liberating freedom of music, the true self can be discovered.

Director:
Christiaan Olwagen
Writers:
Charl-Johan Lingenfelder
Christiaan Olwagen
  • homophobia
  • choir
  • south africa
  • apartheid
  • military service
  • male homosexuality
  • lgbt
  • 1980s
  • military choir
  • gay theme
  • homosexuality

Cast

  • Schalk Bezuidenhout
    Johan Niemand
  • Hannes Otto
    Wolfgang Müller
  • Germandt Geldenhuys
    Ludolf Otterman
  • Gérard Rudolf
    Reverend Koch
  • Jacques Bessenger
    Reverend Engelbrecht
  • Francois Jacobs
    Tiaan Taljaard
  • De Klerk Oelofse
    Walter "Rambo" Boonzaaier
  • Ludwig Binge
    Daan Goosen
  • David Viviers
    Kevin Scott
  • Andrico Goosen
    Ruan "Lobster" Swart
  • Beer Adriaanse
    Corporal Crunchie
  • Laudo Liebenberg
    Lourens Human
  • Geon Nel
    Corporal De Wet
  • Emile Tredoux
    Corporal du Toit
  • Johan Botha
    Mr. Visser
  • Lida Botha
    Mrs. Visser

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