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Malunde: An Unlikely Friendship [Film]
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This South African film is set in post-apartheid South Africa. It describes a friendship that develops between Kobus, a white, former soldier of the of apartheid army and Wonderboy, a black streetchild. It exposes some of the realities of the lives of street children and the employment challenges that ex-soldiers face after political change.
Wonderboy is a wiry 11-year-old, who is trying to survive on the streets of crime-ridden Johannesburg. Kobus can't forget the "good old days" of his army days, when he felt he was "somebody", a man honoured for his bravery. In the post-apartheid South Africa, there is no more glory for ex-soldiers like Kobus, so he needs to find something to make life worth living again.
Kobus takes on a job as a travelling delivery man. His pick-up loaded to the brim with tins of Rainbow Wax, he meets up with Wonderboy at a traffic intersection, where the boy eagerly cleans the car's windscreen, hoping for some small change.
A gangster arrives on the scene, waving a gun. He wants to kill Wonderboy. The boy has only one chance: he leaps into Kobus' car, urging him to drive like hell because he is about to be "car-jacked". Kobus believes him and they race off, shaking the gunman off their tail. Kobus wants to get rid of the "little gangster" as soon as he can. But he needs someone to guard the car - and he is not much of a salesman. Wonderboy uses all his street-wise skills to make Rainbow Wax big business! And so begins a journey which moves from mutual antagonism and suspicion, even hatred, to friendship, coming to terms with a troubled past and creating an unexpected future.
South African film director, Stefanie Sycholt, expressed her personal goal of using the film to promote reconciliation, saying, "Ultimately, I do want to get across a message about the reconciliation of warring groups or different racial groups. But, for me, this can only happen on a personal level. The first step may be the political changes, but everybody also needs to make a personal commitment to letting other people into their lives. Essentially, Malunde is a human film, about giving other people a chance, about giving oneself a chance, about giving friendship a chance, and about the power that is unleashed once that happens." Click here for more information on the film.
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Produced by: Traumwerk Filmproduktion, Munich, in cooperation with BR/Munich
Date of Production: 2001
Length: 119 min, 3,526 m
Wonderboy is a wiry 11-year-old, who is trying to survive on the streets of crime-ridden Johannesburg. Kobus can't forget the "good old days" of his army days, when he felt he was "somebody", a man honoured for his bravery. In the post-apartheid South Africa, there is no more glory for ex-soldiers like Kobus, so he needs to find something to make life worth living again.
Kobus takes on a job as a travelling delivery man. His pick-up loaded to the brim with tins of Rainbow Wax, he meets up with Wonderboy at a traffic intersection, where the boy eagerly cleans the car's windscreen, hoping for some small change.
A gangster arrives on the scene, waving a gun. He wants to kill Wonderboy. The boy has only one chance: he leaps into Kobus' car, urging him to drive like hell because he is about to be "car-jacked". Kobus believes him and they race off, shaking the gunman off their tail. Kobus wants to get rid of the "little gangster" as soon as he can. But he needs someone to guard the car - and he is not much of a salesman. Wonderboy uses all his street-wise skills to make Rainbow Wax big business! And so begins a journey which moves from mutual antagonism and suspicion, even hatred, to friendship, coming to terms with a troubled past and creating an unexpected future.
South African film director, Stefanie Sycholt, expressed her personal goal of using the film to promote reconciliation, saying, "Ultimately, I do want to get across a message about the reconciliation of warring groups or different racial groups. But, for me, this can only happen on a personal level. The first step may be the political changes, but everybody also needs to make a personal commitment to letting other people into their lives. Essentially, Malunde is a human film, about giving other people a chance, about giving oneself a chance, about giving friendship a chance, and about the power that is unleashed once that happens." Click here for more information on the film.
Click here to order this film.
Produced by: Traumwerk Filmproduktion, Munich, in cooperation with BR/Munich
Date of Production: 2001
Length: 119 min, 3,526 m
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