The White Line (movie)
- User score: 7
- Production country: Namibia
- Producer: Désirée Kahikopo-Meiffret
- Production companies: Namibia Film Commission, Ruach Pictures, JazAds Advertising, JusThink Marketing
- Genre: Drama, History, Romance
- Release date: 2/7/2020
- Run time: 90 min.
Movie description
Framed by scenes of Namibia's formal independence as a newly formed African country in 1990, Desiree Kahikopo's historical romance takes us back to 1963, soon after the 1959 uprising in Old Location — an area segregated for black residents of Windhoek, the capital of Namibia (then a territory of South Africa). It is in this setting that Sylvia Kamutjemo (Girley Charlene Jazama, who also produces), a black domestic worker, meets Afrikaner police officer Pieter de Wet (Jan-Barend Scheepers) on a routine passbook check. As the pair exchange letters and a story of forbidden love across racial lines unfolds, Kahikopo explores an underrepresented period of Namibian history with compassion and hope.
