
Gustav Gerdener
Acting
Biography
Gustav Gerdener is a South African actor best known for his starring role as young Pieter in the kykNET drama series Donkerland, based on the stage play by Deon Opperman, in 2013.
Known For

The story of Claire Randall, a married combat nurse from 1945 who is mysteriously swept back in time to 1743, where she is immediately thrown into an unknown world where her life is threatened. When she is forced to marry Jamie, a chivalrous and romantic young Scottish warrior, a passionate affair is ignited that tears Claire's heart between two vastly different men in two irreconcilable lives.
Outlander

A South African Afrikaans soap opera. It is set in and around the fictional private hospital, Binneland Kliniek, in Pretoria, and the storyline follows the trials, trauma and tribulations of the staff and patients of the hospital.
Binnelanders

The story is set in the mountains of Kwazulu-Natal on the farm Donkerland. It follows the lives and times of seven generations of the De Witt family, from the Groot Trek in 1838 until 1996.
Donkerland

After a young woman is kidnapped, her captors soon come to realize that in fact they may be the ones in danger and this young woman has a dark secret inside her.
From a House on Willow Street

Four young men are trying to find their way in a new country, fighting from their dirt poor beginnings to make their names in this gritty period drama.
Bloedbroers

Apartheid is rampant in South Africa, 1963. When ten men are arrested on a farm in Rivonia for conspiring to commit sabotage and violent acts against the repressive S. African government, tenacious lawyer Bram Fisher steps up to the challenge as lead counsel. He soon finds that political leader Nelson Mandela is also on trial. Mandela urges his fellow defendants to plead not guilty and shine light on the systemic corruption against the African people. As the outcome of the trial looks bleak, Mandela gives his famous "I'm Prepared to Die" speech, discussing how the ANC's resistance is justified. But will Mandela's impassioned speech save these men's lives?
An Act of Defiance

Matilda en Matthys is an off-beat romcom about a generation's fear of commitment and suspicion of romance, and how love always knows best, in the end.
Matilda and Matthys

Set in 1901, this period epic follows Willem Morkel, a Boer family man whose wife and son are murdered during the Anglo-Boer War. Captured as a prisoner of war, Willem must survive incarceration in the notorious St. Helena concentration camp and defeat the ruthless Colonel Swannell, at his own game—Rugby
Blood and Glory

The story revolves around Madelaine, a charming farm girl and school photographer from Dewetsdorp. Her life takes an unexpected turn when her car breaks down in Gauteng, leading to a chance encounter with a handsome stranger.
Strooi
Lenie and Marius, an old married couple's only son and his family go away on holiday and leave them on their own for Christmas. How do you celebrate the festive season when you are without a child or crow? You take the town by the horns.
Child

Karli suddenly turns up at her mother Rita's house with bad news - her brother Darius has gone mountain climbing and is missing...
Foto's Teen Die Muur

Rachel, her father David, and adopted brother Isaac flee an attack on their home that leaves David disabled, and everyone traumatised. When they arrive at Janice’s farm, they are welcomed in and given asylum. While David convalesces, Janice asks Rachel to marry her youngest son, Caleb. With the offer of marriage looming over her, she learns of hidden tensions within the family, slowly illuminating cracks in the happy facade Janice seems intent on living. Rachel is determined to go North, where rumours tell of a land less blighted than the one they live in.
Dust

When five ex-band-mates come together for their annual reunion, a dead body stirs up suspicion and violence among the friends.
Die Onderonsie

Join a couple who discover that their cherished wedding spot is set to be demolished. In a bid to relive their old memories, they embark on a road trip down a path shrouded in a mysterious fog. But little do they know that this road carries a magical secret—the further they travel, the younger they become. Will their relationship withstand the test of time as they navigate this enchanting road?
Truspieël

A workaholic woman who has lost her Christmas spirit finds herself stuck with a man who is completely obsessed with the holiday. Forced into an unexpected festive reunion, she must confront her past and painful memories in order to rediscover the magic of Christmas — and maybe even love.
Alleen vir Kersfees

It's every parent's nightmare. Your child needs you and you feel powerless to help. Whether it's that the child needs the necessary medical care, or needs you to protect them. What would you do to help your child?
Bankvas

Leonard is a shy, socially awkward 40-year-old boy who does his best to look after his elderly mother, Lena. He dances with her, feeds her and even bathes her before helping her to bed at night. She appears to be suffering from dementia, but her blank stare and feral appearance give the impression that she is up to sinister things. One night, funny things start happening and Leonard collapses in the hallway. When he came to, he saw that Lena was behaving very strangely. Johan, a naive member of the neighborhood watch, arrives, but he is completely unprepared for the horrors that await him.