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Wild Season (1967)

Wild Season poster
Directed by
Jans Rautenbach
Genre
drama film
Country
South Africa
Runtime
1h 30m
Rating
7.8 of 10 from 2 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A family runs a fishing trawler off the South African coast. They face repeated personal tragedies that test their bonds and survival.

tragicbleakslow-burntensemelancholicgrittyfamily-centeredrealistic

What happens

Wild Season is a 1967 South African drama film directed by Emil Nofal and starring Gert Van den Bergh, Marie Du Toit and Antony Thomas. A family operating a trawler off the South African coast, suffers numerous personal tragedies. A number of scenes were directed by Jans Rautenbach, because Emil Nofal suffered from seasickness. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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