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- BFI identifier375612
- Date1991-04-04 (Television)
- Production countryUnited Kingdom
- Production company
- SynopsisA "comic documentary" which recounts what happens when the filmmaker Nicholas Broomfield tries to make a film in South Africa about the neo-Nazi Afrikaner Resistance Movement and its leader Eugene Terreblanche. Broomfield and his team spent over five weeks in Ventersdorp, an "unreconstructed apartheid town, quite untouched by de Klerk's `new South Africa' reforms", trying to get an interview with "the Leader", mainly by getting in with his driver, JP, and the driver's wife, Anita. (Synopsis) A black comedy-documentary about the right wing in South Africa, involving Nick Broomfield attempting to gain an interview with the white supremacist leader Eugene Terreblanche via his driver and the driver's wife. (Synopsis)
- Genre
- CategoryNon Fiction
- Subject
- Credits
Title
The Leader, His Driver and the Driver's Wife (Original)
- Collections
- Film / Video
VHS cassette - Video - Viewing
view all - ArticlesScreen International n1537 24 Feb 2006 - Short ArticleSight and Sound v15 n5 May 2005 - DVD ReviewEmpire n190 April 2005 - DVD ReviewTelevision v35 n7 October 1998 - Articleview all
- Digital documentsBFI Southbank Programme Notes May 2019
available to view in BFI Reuben Library
- True Stories
Series Work - 777989
United Kingdom - TV - Non Fiction
- +The Leader, His Driver and the Driver's Wife
Work - 375612 - 1991-04-04 (Television)
United Kingdom - Film - Non Fiction
- +The Leader, His Driver and the Driver's Wife
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