Jump to content

Jannie totsiens

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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.[1] 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.[2]

Main cast

[edit]

References

[edit]
  1. ^ "Jannie Totsiens (1970)". BFI. Archived from the original on 22 May 2009. Retrieved 17 September 2018.
  2. ^ Tomaselli p.121

Bibliography

[edit]
  • Tomaselli, Keyan. The cinema of apartheid: race and class in South African film. Routledge, 1989.
[edit]