10 Sep 2002
Promised Land
A young, emigrated, South African man comes back to South Africa to sell his mothers farm.
The Story of an African Farm
The 1870's. South Africa. Life is normal at the farm on the slopes of a Karoo Kopje.Things change when the sinister, eccentric Bonaparte Blenkins with bulbous nose and chimney pot hat arrives. Their childhood is disrupted by the bombastic Irishman who claims blood ties with Wellington and Queen Victoria and so gains uncanny influence over the girls' gross stupid stepmother.
Top Billed Cast
Luke Gallant Waldo
Kasha Kropinski Lyndall
Armin Mueller-Stahl Otto
Karin van der Laag Tent Sannie
Anneke Weidemann Em
Richard E. Grant Bonaparte Blenkins
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