Jannie totsiens
| Jannie totsiens | |
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| Directed by | Jans Rautenbach |
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Running time | +108 minutes |
| Country | South Africa |
| Language | Afrikaans |
Jannie totsiens is a 1970 South African horror film directed by Jans Rautenbach and starring Cobus Rossouw, Katinka Heyns, Jill Kirkland and Don Leonard.[1] A new arrival to a mental institute is ostracised by the other patients, until they use him as a scapegoat when another patient dies. It has been viewed as representing an allegory of South African society at the time.[2] It was the first horror film made in South Africa.[3]
Main cast
- Hermien Dommisse as Magda
- Katinka Heyns as Linda
- Jill Kirkland as Liz
- Patrick Mynhardt as George
- Cobus Rossouw as Jannie Pienaar
- Don Leonard
- Dulcie Van den Bergh
References
- ↑ "Jannie Totsiens (1970)". BFI. Archived from the original on 22 May 2009. Retrieved 17 September 2018.
- ↑ Tomaselli p.121
- ↑ Waddell 2025, p. 14.
Bibliography
- Tomaselli, Keyan (1989). The Cinema of Apartheid: Race and Class in South African Film. Routledge.
- Waddell, Calum (2025). South African Horror Cinema. Bloomsbury Academic. ISBN 978-1501385063.