{"id":870,"date":"2014-01-24T17:41:24","date_gmt":"2014-01-24T15:41:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/?p=870"},"modified":"2014-01-24T17:41:24","modified_gmt":"2014-01-24T15:41:24","slug":"much-anticipated-afrikaans-film-premieres-april","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/blog\/2014\/01\/24\/much-anticipated-afrikaans-film-premieres-april\/","title":{"rendered":"Much Anticipated Afrikaans Film Premieres April"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/diewindpomp.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-871\" alt=\"Die Windpomp\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/diewindpomp.jpg?resize=300%2C200\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a>Cape Town film producer Chris Roland asked the question, \u201cWhat does the Afrikaans community want?\u201d The answer was a \u201cHollywood\u201d movie set in South Africa, and in Afrikaans. When Roland came across the story for Die Windpomp, he was instantly convinced it had the right elements to give the Afrikaans community what it wanted.<br \/>\n<\/i><br \/>\n<i>From the makers of Stander and Hotel Rwanda comes what many are already calling the best Afrikaans film ever made, starring Ian Roberts, Marga van Rooy, and Grethe Fox, and hot newcomers Leandie Du Randt, Armand Greyling and Sean-Marco Vorster.<br \/>\n<\/i><br \/>\nWritten and directed by Etienne Fourie, who also wrote <i>Klein Karoo<\/i>, <i>Die Windpomp<\/i> revolves around 20 year old Hendri\u2019s (Armand Greyling) quirky, colourful story that happens one summer in his grandfather\u2019s retirement village. Against the backdrop of garden ornaments, bingo nights and the weird and wonderful behaviour of the elderly, Hendri befriends a kind but nosey neighbour, Tannie Marietjie (Marga van Rooy) and her two closest mates, Rossouw and Miggie (Ian Roberts and Grethe Fox).\u00a0It\u2019s only when Hendri meets Margot (Leandie du Randt) and falls head over heels in love, thats this sleepy village starts to wake up.\u00a0But all is not as it seems. There are secrets Hendri could have never imagined.<\/p>\n<p>Die Windpomp releases on April 25<sup>th<\/sup> and is distributed by Times Media Films.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cape Town film producer Chris Roland asked the question, \u201cWhat does the Afrikaans community want?\u201d The answer was a \u201cHollywood\u201d movie set in South Africa, and in Afrikaans. When Roland came across the story for Die Windpomp, he was instantly convinced it had the right elements to give the Afrikaans community what it wanted. From&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/blog\/2014\/01\/24\/much-anticipated-afrikaans-film-premieres-april\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Much Anticipated Afrikaans Film Premieres April<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/870","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=870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/870\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}