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His Big White Self

Type: Feature
Released: 2006
Length: 100 min.
Directed by: Nick Broomfield

Crew

Producer Nick Broomfield

Camera Joan Churchill

Editor Peter Christelis

Executive Producer Riete Oord

Executive Producer Charles Finch

Production Company Lafayette Films

Full credits (Main credits only)

Themes

Status

  • Broadcast within UK

Synopsis:

When Broomfield completed The Leader, His Driver and The Driver's Wife, his 1991 film about the white South African extremist leader Eugene Terreblanche, he received death threats, as well as a message on his answerphone threatening to bomb his flat. Fourteen years later, he decides to take his life into his hands and follow up the story of the AWB and the people involved.

He meets up with JP, Terreblanche's now former driver, and Anita, JP's now former wife. JP feels betrayed by the leaders who promised him a revolution that never came, while Anita has resigned herself to a lonely existence with her grandchildren and her cats, seeming to accept the new South Africa. Terreblanche, on the other hand, has been up to all sorts of mischief, including a prison sentence for the attempted murder of his watchman and the hint of even shadier crimes that have never been fully exposed. Now writing poetry and claiming to lead a quiet life, Broomfield must pluck up his courage and try to interview the man once more.

Synopsis:
When Broomfield completed The Leader, His Driver and The Driver's Wife, his 1991 film about the white South African extremist leader Eugene Terreblanche, he received death threats, as well as a message on his answerphone threatening to bomb his flat. Fourteen years later, he decides to take his life into his hands and follow up the story of the AWB and the people involved.

He meets up with JP, Terreblanche's now former driver, and Anita, JP's now former wife. JP feels betrayed by the leaders who promised him a revolution that never came, while Anita has resigned herself to a lonely existence with her grandchildren and her cats, seeming to accept the new South Africa. Terreblanche, on the other hand, has been up to all sorts of mischief, including a prison sentence for the attempted murder of his watchman and the hint of even shadier crimes that have never been fully exposed. Now writing poetry and claiming to lead a quiet life, Broomfield must pluck up his courage and try to interview the man once more.
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