Movies: Petru Wessels

Tells the story of a 1966 railway community, told through the eyes of an eleven year old boy, called Timus....

Lt. Gerhard Muller is the son of a pilot who was killed while flying with the South African Air Force in Korea. At the time his best friend and fellow pilot, Chris Fourie, was the only one to return from their mission and since then there have been v...

The CONSTANTIA FILMS movie SONJA is a romantic drama produced in 1971 by Bill Troskie, with Daan Retief as director and scriptwriter. It tells the story of Sonja’s (played by Petru Wessels) husband, Chris (Hans Strydom), who is obsessed with having c...

This is an Afrikaans documentary about the bus disaster that hit the community on 28 January 1970 when 23 pupils from the Dr Malan High School died in an accident....

Soekie is a family drama which focuses on the destructive effect of an impending divorce on family life. It is based on the book "Die Hele Dorp Weet" [translates to " The Whole Town Knows"] written by Santie Grosskopf....

Old uncle Ben and his wife received hundreds of Christmas wishes from various hopeful children across the country. But they never opened the letters, as opening one meant opening all - Until now - 30 years later....

General de Wet asks Boer soldier and Kavalier leader Chris Botha to select 100 of his best men for a “suicide mission” behind enemy lines. First the Kavaliers steal ammunition from right under the noses of the British, and then they leave behind a no...

Salomien is sent to prison for murdering her husband, Ernst. She is suffering from amnesia, but the prison's chaplain believes she will be able to remember by writing down her fragmented memories. This the story of her husband's murder unfolds...