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Johan Botha

Johan Botha

Acting

Biography

Johan Botha is a South African actor. Botha's portrayal of the father in David Eldridge's Festén (translated by Hennie van Greunen; directed by Heinrich Reisenhofer) is widely regarded as his masterpiece. He is married to actress Lida Botha. The couple appeared in numerous TV and film productions and were known at all the Afrikaans art festivals for their Grandfather and Grandmother stories.

Known For

The Story of Klara Viljee
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This affirming story of one woman's struggle to free herself from the past, and how that affects the small fishing village where she lives, shows that faith can move mountains, or unmake them. When the seamstress Klara loses her father and her fiance at sea, she decides she never wants to see the ocean again. She builds her house behind a huge sand dune, and even refuses to eat fish. Several years later, however, she receives news that makes her start carting away the dune, bucket load by bucket load. It turns out her boyfriend is alive, and that hes been living in Cape Town for the past six years. He ran off because he made a local girl pregnant a pregnancy attributed to the local schoolmaster. As the villagers watch Klara move the dune, they begin examining their own lives, and the entire community undergoes a wondrous rejuvenation.

The Story of Klara Viljee

1992Movie