“Toorbos” explores the uprooting of a young forest woman and her community during the time of the last forest inhabitants of South Africa’s Knysna forest of the 1930s. This magical realist period drama, follows the free-spirited Karoliena as she is coaxed into marriage to a townsman, experiences the realities of progress, discovers its oppression of society, the growing power of money on cultural homogenization, and what it will take to stay true to herself. |
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Ratings: | IMDB: 7.1/10 | |
Released: | November 13, 2020 | |
Runtime: | 120 min | |
Genres: | Drama | |
Countries: | South Africa | |
Companies: | The Film Factory | |
Cast: | Stiaan Smith Elani Dekker Ira Blanckenberg | |
Crew: | Rene van Rooyen Dalene Matthee | |
Birdsforme : This was an excellent film I never saw before with an all star cast in their younger year...