Jannie totsiens
Appearance
Jannie totsiens is a 1970 South African psychological 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]
Main cast
[edit]- Hermien Dommisse - Magda
- Katinka Heyns - Linda
- Jill Kirkland - Liz
- Patrick Mynhardt - George
- Cobus Rossouw - Jannie Pienaar
- Don Leonard
- Dulcie Van den Bergh
References
[edit]- ^ "Jannie Totsiens (1970)". BFI. Archived from the original on 22 May 2009. Retrieved 17 September 2018.
- ^ Tomaselli p.121
Bibliography
[edit]- Tomaselli, Keyan. The cinema of apartheid: race and class in South African film. Routledge, 1989.