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Moffie a must-see
MARIA DUARTE recommends a film on the apartheid regime's brutal treatment of a young gay army conscript
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Moffie (18)
Directed by Oliver Hermanus
SET in South Africa in 1981, this slow-burning and haunting drama explores the experience of 18-year-old Nicholas Van der Swart (Kai Luke Brummer), who's been called up for compulsory National Service.
The country has begun military operations on its border with Angola, at the time backed by the socialist countries, to “stop the spread of communism.” All white males over the age of 16 were conscripted into the military for two years to defend the racist regime.
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