Boetie Gaan Border Toe is a 1984 satire film set during the South African Border War. The film was directed by Regardt van den Bergh, and stars Arnold Vosloo, Frank Dankert and Frank Opperman. Production was assisted by the South African Defence Force (SADF). 80's South African action-comedy shot mostly in Afrikaans, one of South Africa's 11 indigenous languages. The main character, played by Arnold Vosloo, is a spoilt young man from a rich family, just finished school, and conscripted to two years of army service, as most defensible young men were forced to do in the '80s. The movie revolves around the young rebel's anti-establishment antics in frustrating his superiors, trying to avoid military service with his new-found comrades-at-arms, and charming an inquisitive spiky-haired reporter, played by Janie du Plessis. Plot: Boetie van Tonder, a young Afrikaner, faces conscription into the South African military. Although initially determined to resist national service and defy instruction, he quickly finds comfort in the company of his fellow conscripts as they weather the harshness of basic training and their subsequent deployment to the Angolan border. Cast: Arnold Vosloo as Boetie van Tonder Eric Nobbs [af] as Korporaal Botes Frank Dankert as Dampies Ball Kelsey Middleton as Jenny Ball Janie du Plessis [af] as Elize Kerneels Coertzen as Davel Pagel Kruger as Mnr. Moerdijk William Abdul as James Frank Opperman as De Kock Blake Toerien as Piet Slabbert Christo Loots as Sunshine Neels Engelbrecht as Gattie Rudi De Jager as Meyer Bobbette Fouche as Mev. Moerdijk Graham Clarke as Dokter Gys de Villiers [af] as Korporaal Smit Jacques Loots [af] as Politikus Jana Cilliers as Lecturer (dosent) Gretha Brazelle as Charmaine Reception: Literary analyst Monica Popescu described Boetie Gaan Border Toe and its sequel, Boetie Op Manoeuvres, as works which essentially romanticised the South African Border War and devoted a disproportionate amount of emphasis to the "chivalrous conduct of SADF soldiers". Keyan Tomaselli of the University of Johannesburg criticised the film as "propagandistic". Boetie Gaan Border Toe was a financial success, breaking South African box office records #BoetieGaanBorderToe #OnsTaal #Afrikaans

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