{"id":12775,"date":"2021-08-27T13:43:49","date_gmt":"2021-08-27T11:43:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/?p=12775"},"modified":"2021-08-27T13:47:44","modified_gmt":"2021-08-27T11:47:44","slug":"critically-acclaimed-sa-karoo-sci-fi-film-wesens-no-available-on-showmax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/blog\/2021\/08\/27\/critically-acclaimed-sa-karoo-sci-fi-film-wesens-no-available-on-showmax\/","title":{"rendered":"Critically Acclaimed SA Karoo Sci-Fi Film “Wesens” Now Available On Showmax"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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WESENS<\/em>, the critically acclaimed Karoo Sci-Fi film that was released in South African cinemas in October last year, will now be exclusively available on Showmax.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This sci-fi, mystery is set in South Africa in 1967 and follows four South African Intelligence Agents as they investigate an unidentified object that landed on a farm in the Karoo. They record their investigation with a Super 8 and 16mm camera, trying to solve a mystery that will keep you guessing until the very last line.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Film critics like Leon van Nierop, Anna-Marie Jansen van Vuuren, Francois Bekker and many others raved about this first full-length film from writer and director Derick Muller.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“WESENS is like nothing you have ever seen in Afrikaans<\/em>“, said Leon van Nierop and rated the film as one of his Top 10 films of 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rapportgave the film four stars, calling it “ground-breaking<\/em>” and Radio Sonder Grense <\/em>praised it as “one of the rarest films ever made in Afrikaans.<\/em>“<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anna-Marie Jansen van Vuuren named it “the first, truly Afrikaans Sci-Fi film<\/em>“, while Francois Bekker wrote in FAK’s Flink magazine that “serious filmgoers will thoroughly enjoy all the cinematic elements.<\/em>“<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Siegfried Louw from LiGmagazine wrote that after watching the film “you feel like someone who was given the opportunity to discover something you that are not supposed to know.<\/em>“<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Laetitia Pople from Netwerk24 (Die Burger\/Beeld) wrote that it is wonderful to experience Albert Maritz as the farmer who discovers a strange object on his farm, his “pitch perfect performance will have you laughing out loud.<\/em>“<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The cast of this first-of-a-kind Karoo Sci-Fi film includes renowned South African actors, such as Albert Maritz (Griekwastad, Fynskrif, Trackers<\/em>), Pietie Beyers (Binnelanders, Vergeet My Nie<\/em>) and Morn\u00e9 Visser (The Kissing Booth<\/em>, The Harvester<\/em>, Dis ek, Anna<\/em>). The film also includes fresh new faces such as Randy Januarie (Projek Dina, Die Sentrum<\/em>), Rayno von Schlicht and Conradie van Heerden (Fynskrif, Sara se Geheim<\/em>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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