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Boetie Gaan Border Toe
Boetie Gaan Border Toe
Directed by	Regardt van den Bergh
Written by	Johan Coetzee, Cor Nortjé
Produced by	Philo Pieterse
Starring	Arnold Vosloo; Eric Nobbs; ; Frank Dankert
Release date	1984;
Running time	94 minutes
Country	South Africa
Language	Afrikaans

Boetie Gaan Border Toe is a 1984 satire film set during the South African Border War. The film was directed by Regardt van den Bergh, and stars Arnold Vosloo, Frank Dankert and Frank Opperman. Production was assisted by the South African Defence Force (SADF).^[1]

Plot

Boetie van Tonder, a young Afrikaner, faces conscription into the South African military. Although initially determined to resist national service and defy instruction, he quickly finds comfort in the company of his fellow conscripts as they weather the harshness of basic training and their subsequent deployment to the Angolan border.^[2]

Cast

Arnold Vosloo as Boetie van Tonder
Eric Nobbs [af] as Korporaal Botes
Frank Dankert as Dampies Ball
Kelsey Middleton as Jenny Ball
Janie du Plessis [af] as Elize
Kerneels Coertzen as Davel
Pagel Kruger as Mnr. Moerdijk
William Abdul as James
Frank Opperman as De Kock
Blake Toerien as Piet Slabbert
Christo Loots as Sunshine
Neels Engelbrecht as Gattie
Rudi De Jager as Meyer
Bobbette Fouche as Mev. Moerdijk
Graham Clarke as Dokter
Gys de Villiers as Korporaal Smit
Jacques Loots [af] as Politikus
Jana Cilliers as Lecturer (dosent)
Gretha Brazelle as Charmaine

Reception

Literary analyst Monica Popescu described Boetie Gaan Border Toe and its sequel, Boetie Op Manoeuvres, as works which essentially romanticised the South African Border War and devoted a disproportionate amount of emphasis to the "chivalrous conduct of SADF soldiers".^[3] Keyan Tomaselli of the University of Johannesburg criticised the film as "propagandistic".^[2]

Boetie Gaan Border Toe was a financial success, breaking South African box office records.^[4]

References

^ Raoul Granqvist (1993). Major Minorities: English Literatures in Transit (1993 ed.). Rodopi Publishers. pp. 89–92. ISBN 90-5183-559-0.
^ ^a ^b Tomaselli, Keyan (2013). The Cinema of Apartheid Race and Class in South African Film. Hoboken: Taylor and Francis. p. 194. ISBN 9781317928393. Retrieved 22 September 2017.
^ Popescu, Monica (2010). South African Literature Beyond the Cold War. Palgrave Macmillan. p. 49. ISBN 9781137071859.
^ Botha, Martin (2012). South African cinema: 1896-2010. Bristol: Intellect. ISBN 9781841504582.