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Jannie totsiens (1970)

Jannie totsiens poster
Directed by
Jans Rautenbach
Genre
horror film
Country
South Africa
Runtime
1h 48m
Rating
10.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A man arrives at a mental institution and is shunned by the other patients. When another patient dies, they blame him.

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What happens

Jannie totsiens is a 1970 South African psychological horror film directed by Jans Rautenbach and starring Cobus Rossouw, Katinka Heyns, Jill Kirkland and Don Leonard. A new arrival to a mental institute is ostracised by the other patients, until they use him as a scapegoat when another patient dies. It has been viewed as representing an allegory of South African society at the time. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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