Featuring 50s music from rock \u2018n roll to doo-wop, the film pays homage to an era <\/span>characterised by charm and romance. “In the tradition of \u2018Grease\u2019 and \u2018Hairspray\u2019, it\u2019s madly colourful and stylish,” says Korsten. It features sumptuous costumes, with a wardrobe never before seen in a local movie. Because it\u2019s set in the 50s, audiences will also be able to feast their eyes on a gorgeo<\/span>us collection of classic vintage cars too.”<\/p>\n The extravagant set was built from scratch at Hartbeespoort and encompasses a town hall, diner, hair salon, garage, funeral parlour and other distinctive small town features. Producer Paul Kruger scouted everywhere for a suitable location which still had lots of buildings from the 50s, but could not find anything that worked. \u201cI chatted to my sister, who is an architect, and she suggested we just build the town ourselves,\u201d he says. \u201cShe showed me the plans an d we went ahead. We began the project in April <\/span>2011, and it took me, seven builders and five assistants about a year to construct it.<\/p>\n In the lead are Marlee van der Merwe (Liefling, Die Movie), newcomer Eugene Jensen and Marno van der Merwe (Longshot). Also starring in the film is Terence Bridgett as the flamboyant hairdresser and mayor of \u2018\u2018Pretville\u2019\u2019. Other well known stars appearing in the film include Annette Engelbrecht, Lizz Meiring, Steve Hofmeyr, Rina Nienaber, Emo Adams, Margit Meyer-Rodenbeck, Willem Botha, Sanet Ackerman, Kevin Leo and Jakkie Louw, as well as a line-up of fresh, young talent.<\/p>\n \u201cMachiel, Linda and I all had a few people in mind for the cast, but the process was very organic,\u201d says Kruger. \u201cAs the story developed, so we thought of people who <\/span>could play the part \u2013 <\/span>for example, Emo Adams and Margit Meyer-Rodenbeck as the <\/span>\u2018Pretville\u2019 police officers and Kevin Leo and Jakkie Louw as the jail wardens. And who better to play the prisoners that Kobus Wiese and Jimmy Abbott? Terence Bridgett as the hairdresser and mayor was also a shoe-in. The casting was spot on.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n \u2018Pretville\u2019 will be distributed by Indigenous Film Distribution. \u201cThe attendance figures show that South African audiences are loving the top quality Afrikaans films that have been produced in the last two years,\u201d says Helen Kuun, CEO of Indigenous Film Distribution. \u201cIt\u2019s exciting to see the progress being made in driving quality and excellent production values while also creating great South African entertainment.\u201d<\/p>\n \u2018Pretville\u2019, the brand new Afrikaans musical film from Hartiwood Films, opens in cinemas nationwide on 23 November 2012. The film is a rollicking romantic musical comedy set in the 50s, in a vibrant and colourful town where anything can happen and fun is the order of the day. This is the second musical from the… Continue reading Vibrant 50’s Afrikaans Musical Film Hits Local Cinema Screens 23 Nov<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"pretville](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/pretville.jpg\" "\\"Pretville\\"")
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