This epic film was one of the first South African dramatic film productions. It tells the story of the Boers’ Great Trek at the end of the 1830s, concluding with a hegemonic reconstruction of the 1838 Battle of Blood River, where a few hundred armed Afrikaners defeated several thousand Zulus.
Harold M. Shaw
Director, Writer
Gustav Preller
Writer
Dick Cruikshanks
Piet Retief
Caroline Frances Cooke
Lenie Retief
Jackie Turnbull
Piet Retief Junior
Bobby Rowson
Willie van Rensburg
Stephen Ewart
Gen. Pretorius
M.A. Wetherell
Karel Landman
Mabel Rushton
Mrs. Landman
Edna Flugrath
Johanna Landman
Julius Royston
Louis Perreira
Radium Girls67%
Munich - The Edge of War69%
Oranges and Sunshine69%
Panther62%
The Book of Daniel70%
Suffragette71%
Zulu73%
Shattered Glass69%
Ararat61%
Oslo65%
A United Kingdom66%
Emancipation78%
The World Will Tremble74%
Mansfield Park61%
7 Women65%
Origin62%
Richard Jewell74%
The Current War66%
The Last Rifleman66%
The Grey Zone66%
