Pavement Aristocrats - The Bergies of Cape Town
MovieTitle | Pavement Aristocrats - The Bergies of Cape Town |
User score | 0 |
Release date | Jan 1, 1998 |
Genre | Documentary |
Director | François Verster |
Production country | South Africa |
Production companies | Screen Ventures |
Run time | 58 min. |
Looks at a group of homeless people, the Bergies, in Cape Town, South Africa. Through a series of interviews, the film traces the Bergie community back to their Khoisan roots, outlines colonial dispossession, and looks at problems with alcohol dependency. It also gives the community a chance to tell their story, by zooming in on the daily life of two couples