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The Harvesters/Die Stropers

  • Country:

    South Africa

  • Genre:

    Drama

  • Directed by:

    Etienne Kallos

  • Produced by:

    Michael Auret, Thembisa Cochrane, Sophie Erbs, Etienne Kallos

  • Co-Producer(s):

    Tom Dercourt, Giorgos Karnavas, Konstadinos Kontovrakis, Mariusz Wlodarski

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Etienne Kallos

An isolated and conservative farming region in rural South Africa is the stronghold for Afrikaans white, minority culture, obsessed with strength and masculinity. In this world Janno exists – different, secretive and emotionally frail. One day his mother, who is fiercely religious, b

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An isolated and conservative farming region in rural South Africa is the stronghold for Afrikaans white, minority culture, obsessed with strength and masculinity. In this world Janno exists - different, secretive and emotionally frail. One day his mother, who is fiercely religious, brings home Pieter, a hardened street orphan she wants to save. Janno is asked to make this stranger, his brother. The two boys begin a fight for power, heritage and parental love.

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Critic Reviews (5)

6.4
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Lowest score:
Average score: 8.0
6.0
7.2
  1. Positive: 4 Out of 5
  1. Mixed: 1 Out of 5
  1. Negative: 0 Out of 5
Critical Consensus: Good.
1

The Apologist Mag

20 May 2018
8.0
"Unerringly precise casting, meanwhile, ensure that the film’s milieu is as richly inhabited as it is written." ...
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Variety

15 May 2018
8.0
"There's brute beauty to spare in South African filmmaker Etienne Kallos' impressive debut, a stark, stately portrait of Afrikaner identity in crisis." ...
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3

Screen Daily

14 May 2018
7.0
"...while the character motivations are a little clouded in a muddy third act, this film will nonetheless register as an impressive calling card for director with a knack for understated intimacy." ...
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4

Hollywood Reporter

16 May 2018
7.0
"A slow-burning and increasingly suffocating variation on the myth of Cain and Abel, The Harvesters (Die Stropers) is the impressive feature debut from Greek-South African filmmaker Etienne Kallos... The taciturn nature of the story and the protagoni ...
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4

Cineuropa

15 May 2018
6.0
"The Harvesters has a real air of threatening austerity about it, enhanced by an excellent musical score, courtesy of Evgueni Galperine... But, the monolithic nature of the lead characters and the addition of a homosexual sub-theme to a plot which wa ...
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Cast:

Alex van Dyk, Juliana Venter, Brent Vermeulen, Morné Visser
Release Date(s):

May 14, 2018 (Cannes Film Festival, France)
May 25, 2018 (Paris, France) (premiere)
February 13, 2019 (France)
Executive Producer(s):

Annette Fausboll, Julien Favre, Jean-Alexandre Luciani, Lwazi Manzi
Cinematography:

Michal Englert
Screenplay:

Etienne Kallos
Editor:

Muriel Breton
Sound:

Thomas Robert, Leandros Ntounis, Jean-Guy Veran
Music:

Evgueni Galperine, Sacha Galperine
Production Company:

Cinémadefacto, Spier Films, Heretic, Lava Films, Bord Cadre Films
Distribution:

Pyramide Distribution
Language:

Afrikaans, English
Runtime:

102 minutes

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