The film stayed in cinema for a total of 8 weeks, leaving all sites in South Africa on. When he has finished they make him stand by it and shoot him so that he falls back into the grave he has just dug.

One prisoner is being forced to dig a grave by Japanese soldiers. The film was released on 1 April 2016 in South Africa via distribution partners of the film Ster Kinekor to 51 cinemas nationwide. A Japanese prisoner of war camp in the jungle on an island in the Malay peninsula at the end of the second world war in 1945.

Some sequences were filmed on a boat off the coast of Hout Bay. The film also features appearances from well-known South African actors Greg Kriek, Clyde Berning, Paul Snodgrass, Carla Else and Andrew Lopescher.įilming took place during winter in the Western Cape, South Africa in 2015, specifically in the Worcester area and parts of Cape Town. Marno van der Merwe as JJ 'Ratel' Wessels.

Altus Theart as Daniel 'Yster' Malherbe.

Bok van Blerk as Kommandant Gideon Scheepers.

It was written and directed by Sean Else ( Spud 2, Platteland, 'n Man soos My Pa), and produced by Llewelynn Greeff ( Leading Lady and The Unfamiliar) and Henk Pretorius ( Leading Lady, Fanie Fourie's Lobola, Wolwedans in die Skemer, Hoofmeisie, Bakgat Trilogy and The Unfamiliar)īlood and Glory includes a strong South African male cast, along with five international actors – a first for a South African film: The film also makes mention of the scorched earth policy implemented by the British commander-in-chief, General Herbert Kitchener, during the Boer War.īlood and Glory was co-produced by Dark Matter Studios and Collective Dream Films. It is documented that 28,000 Boer women and children, as well as 20,000 black people, died in British concentration camps (Professor Fransjohan, 2011 writing for BBC). Hardhome Wildlings and Jon Snow are trapped on the shores of Hardhome as the White Walkers and Wights descend to kill them. The historical authenticity of backdrop events, conditions and attitudes in the plot of the film can be debated, as its depiction of the Boers and the British relies heavily on glorification of the former and vilification of the latter. The best Game of Thrones episodes based on IMDb ratings were: Rains of Castamere Starks are trapped in the Frey’s dining hall before being murdered at The Red Wedding. The film's protagonist, Willem Morkel, is loosely based on Sommie Morkel, who went on to play for the South Africa national rugby union team. īlood and Glory is a fictional account, using the backdrop of the Boer War, with some of the places in the plot resembling actual locations from the war.

Though suffering under great oppression and hardship, Morkel and his comrades slowly come together to assert their defiance, humanity, and human spirit, especially through the game of rugby. The film, set in 1901, at the end of the Second Boer War, is a period drama that follows Willem Morkel, a Cape rebel (a Boer or Afrikaner) farmer who was captured and sent to a British prisoner of war camp on the Island of Saint Helena in the South Atlantic Ocean. British officer Lambert and, in the women’s prison, the recently-widowed Kate, join Dutch in arming the prisoners.Blood and Glory ( Afrikaans: Modder en Bloed) is a feature film that was released to cinema in April 2016 in South Africa. Knowing that Yamamitsu, the sadistic commandant, will murder them all when he learns of his country’s defeat, Dutch, a Dutch planter, smashes the camp radio. Deep in Malaya, as World War II is rapidly coming to an end, men, women and children, trapped by the Japanese invasion, are held captive in the Blood Island prison camp.

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