General Information

Author/Creator

Verster, François, director.

Language

English.

Subtitles

English

Published

South Africa : Francois Verster, 1998.

Physical Description

VHS (57 min.)

Contents/Summary

Summary

Through a series of interviews with an historian and social workers, the film traces the bergie community back to their Khoisan roots, outlines colonial dispossession, and exposes the modern-day alcohol dependency deliberately set up by the tot system used on the Cape’s wine farms. The film also gives a chanceto these dispossed people to tell their own story. It does so by zooming in on the daily life of two couples, highlighting their inimitable wit in the face of despair, their weakness, and in the end, the dignity of choice that allows them to survive.

Subjects

Genre

Documentary films

Bibliographic Information

Note

Duration: 00:57:00

Holdings

Item Type	Current Location	Call Number	Status	Shelving Location	Public Note
VHS	OSA Film Library	FL Record 0920	Available	-	-