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Windprints

Windprints

1989Movie⏱️ 1h 40mTV-14
ActionDramaThriller
6
IMDB Rating
286 votes

A South African video journalist is sent to neighboring Namibia to do a story on a man who has been going around and killing black laborers. The killer, Nhadiep, has an almost mythical status to both the white farmers and the blac...

Director
David Wicht
Writers
Heinrich Dahms, Johann Potgieter, David Wicht
Stars
Kurt Egelhof, Lesley Fong, Dana Niehaus
Release Date
June 29, 1990
Language
English, Afrikaans
Country
South Africa
💬 8
Reviews
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🎭 Top Cast

👤
Kurt Egelhof
as Pieterse
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Lesley Fong
as Nhadiep
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Dana Niehaus
as Helmut
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Eric Nobbs
as 'Platvoet' du Plessis
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Johann Potgieter
as Otto
Marius Weyers
Marius Weyers
as Henning
John Hurt
John Hurt
as Charles Rutherford
Sean Bean
Sean Bean
as Anton van Heerden
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Trudie Taljaard
as Marie Bruck
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Julia Burazin
as Johanna

🎬 Technical Specs

Aspect Ratio
1.85 : 1
Color
Color
Filming Location
Namibia
Production
Apex Motion Pictures Sales Limited, Film Afrika Worldwide, ICA Television

🎯 Categories

ActionDramaThriller

⭐ Featured Review

an excellent "picture" window on apartheid
by JJCA2003-03-27
7/10

"This moody, mystery (of a sort) is a real gem. I enjoyed it from beginning to end and my only complaint is that it ended too quickly! Sean Bean has an amazing facility with accents and demonstrates his wonderful acting ability in the von heerdon character - showing the embarrasment,anger and angst that an elightened afrikaaner feels about the apartheid-bound stupidities in his world. John Hurt also does a good job with the older journalist who condemns but in effect condones because he wont question the system. All this is wrapped up in the search for a killer - a killer that becomes more t..."

📖 Synopsis

A South African video journalist is sent to neighboring Namibia to do a story on a man who has been going around and killing black laborers. The killer, Nhadiep, has an almost mythical status to both the white farmers and the blac...