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Genre
  
Drama

Duration
  

Running time
  
1h 59m

7.2/10
IMDb

Writer
  
Director
  
Language
  
Afrikaans

Paljas movie poster

Initial release
  
January 23, 1998 (South Africa)

Characters
  
Sergeant, Katrina MacDonald, Jan Mol, Sakkie, Nollie

Cast
  
Marius Weyers
(Hendrik MacDonald),
Aletta Bezuidenhout
(Katrina MacDonald),
Liezel van der Merwe
(Emma MacDonald),
Larry Leyden
(Willem MacDonald),
Jan Ellis
(Nollie),
Ian Roberts
(Frans)

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Paljas (meaning "magic" or to cast a spell) is an Afrikaans language South African film that was released in 1997. Paljas was written by Chris Barnard and directed by Katinka Heyns.

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Awards

The film was submitted for the 70th Academy Award for Best Foreign Film, the first South African submission since the end of Apartheid.

Synopsis

The film revolves around the lives of the rural McDonald family. The household of Hendrik McDonald, stationmaster of the tiny Karoo town, Toorwater (Magic Water), experience a number of unexpected situations when a travelling circus troupe leave behind a clown named Manuel. The intrigues of the story include the estranged relationship between Hendrik and his wife Katrien, partly due to her being admired by Frans Lombard. Meanwhile, their daughter Emma is discontented with her suitor, Nollie Kemp, and Willem, the household's youngest, remains withdrawn and refuses to talk. The continued presence of the eccentric clown, Manuel, is kept secret by Willem. Manuel is later cruelly chased and shot by some of the local community who consider him to be evidence of anti-Christian forces despite having succeeded in convincing Willem to communicate and healed much of the family's pain through his caring and fun nature.

References

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