Gerrie & Louise (1997)

Directed by

Sturla Gunnarsson

Genre

documentary film

Country

Canada

Runtime

1h 15m

Rating

9.0 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A Canadian documentary looks at post-apartheid South Africa through a former military officer and the journalist who investigated him. The two later married and the film examines their relationship against the country's history.

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What happens

Gerrie & Louise is a 1997 Canadian documentary film directed by Sturla Gunnarsson. The film examines post-apartheid South Africa through the lens of Gerrie Hugo, a former officer in the South African Defence Force who fell in love with and married Louise Flanagan, a journalist investigating the SADF's role in various controversial events during the apartheid era. The film had a theatrical screening at the 1997 Toronto International Film Festival, but was distributed primarily as a CBC Television broadcast. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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