Overview
Kanarie (Afrikaans for 'Canary') is a coming-of-age musical war drama. Drafted into the South African army during apartheid, a young soldier joins the military's traveling choir, and romance on the battlefield causes him to deal with his long-repressed sexual identity through hardship, camaraderie, first love, and the liberating freedom of music, the true self can be discovered.
Cast
- Schalk Bezuidenhout as Johan Niemand
- Hannes Otto as Wolfgang Müller
- Germandt Geldenhuys as Ludolf Otterman
- Gérard Rudolf as Reverend Koch
- Jacques Bessenger as Reverend Engelbrecht
- Francois Jacobs as Tiaan Taljaard
- De Klerk Oelofse as Walter "Rambo" Boonzaaier
- Ludwig Binge as Daan Goosen
- David Viviers as Kevin Scott
- Andrico Goosen as Ruan "Lobster" Swart