The Boers at the End of the World

Movie
TitleBoere op die Aards Drempel
User score

10

Release dateAug 5, 2015
GenreDocumentary
DirectorRichard Finn Gregory
Production countrySouth Africa
Production companiesA GOOD Work
Run time85 min.

In a remote stretch of Patagonia, Argentina, there is a family - the Dickasons - who speak a language from a country 7,000km to the east. They are part of a 114-year-old Afrikaans Boer community - South Africans of Dutch descent who sailed across the ocean to South America after the destruction of a war with the British. Today, less than 50 still speak the language and they struggle to keep their culture alive. Patriarch "Ty" Dickason, 82, is a cowboy who has never flown in a plane - and yet he yearns to one day visit the country of his blood before he and his compatriots pass away. This multiple SAFTA award-winning documentary is a portrait of the last days of the community - a parallel world where Afrikaans was never linked to Apartheid - and one family's journey to reconnect with South Africa.

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Feb 17, 2014

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