Marcel Van Heerden

Películas

Krotoa
Wagenaar
Krotoa, a feisty, bright, 11-year-old girl is removed from her close-knit Khoi tribe to serve Jan van Riebeeck, her uncle’s trading partner and the first Governor of the Cape Colony. She is brought into the first Fort established by the Dutch East India Company in 1652. There she grows into a visionary young woman who assimilates the Dutch language and culture so well that she rises to become an influential translator but ends up being rejected by her own people as she tries to bridge the gap between the two cultures about to collide.
Guardián y verdugo
Justice J. P. van Zyl
En 1987, 164 personas fueron ejecutadas en el corredor de la muerte de Pretoria, Sudáfrica. Jon Weber es el abogado encargado de defender ante un juez a Leon, un joven guardia de la prisión de máxima seguridad de Pretoria traumatizado por todas las ejecuciones que ha presenciado. Basada en hechos reales, esta es la historia que puso la pena de muerte en duda y cambió la historia.
Kalushi : The Story of Solomon Mahlangu
Judge Theron
La vida y época del emblemático combatiente sudafricano Solomon Mahlangu, que luchó contra las fuerzas del apartheid.
A Paw-Paw For My Darling
Tango Du Toit
This local ensemble comedy is set in 2003, as a group of working-class South Africans try to come to terms with their changed society. Seen through the eyes of a family dog, we watch as friends, neighbours and lovers try to deal with their challenging relationships.
The Pro
Ed Nothnagel
The Pro tells the story of a young surfer, Tiaan Nothnagel that has to come to terms with the accidental death of his best friend, Dirkie Lawrence just before their last year at school.After Dirkie’s death, Tiaan swears off surfing for good, as he can’t stand to be reminded of everything that he and Dirkie shared. But then, Dirkie’s twin sister (who went to live with their dad after their parents split up the previous year) arrives in town on a mission: to be selected to go on Wave-Seekers, a fictional World Surf Tour and something that Tiaan and Dirkie dreamt of doing.
Road to Your Heart
Dawn
Basson has five days to make it to his father's funeral in Cape Town, but needs to complete certain tasks on this trip before he can call the family company his own. On the road he meets free-spirited bohemian girl, Amory. As they journey across the breathtaking landscape of South Africa, they meet wonderful characters that allow for hilarious moments and life-changing experiences. Their trip takes a sudden turn for the worst when a villainous figure makes an appearance. Basson and Amory are faced with disappointment and heartache. On the road called life, it is inevitable that you will take some wrong turns. But no matter how hard the road might be, on route to true love is where you will find your true north.
Molly & Wors The Movie
Lawyer
Based on the Afrikaans TV series by the same name, this comedy comes to the big screen. The plot-line is rather convoluted as befits a farce, and sees the main characters get themselves into serious troubles before everything works out like it is supposed to.
Durban Poison
Du Plessis
Twenty seven years after his UCLA graduate thesis film Shot Down was banned in his home country and went on to festival acclaim and cult status, writer-director Andrew Worsdale returns with this noir romance set among the marginalised white underclass. The film follows a police investigation into four murders and charts the doomed romance of the outlaw lovers. A deeply romantic, elegiac and universal crime story where the murders are not the point of the movie.
Traitors
Boshoff
During the Boer War in South Africa, upon hearing that the British are planning a scorched earth policy, a respected Boer officer, who's also a loving father and husband, decides to go home and protect his wife and family instead of participating further in the war. The decision leads to a treason trial for him and his sons.
Punk in Africa
Three chords, three countries, one revolution...PUNK IN AFRICA is the story of the multiracial punk movement within the recent political and social upheavals experienced in three Southern African countries: South Africa, Mozambique and Zimbabwe.
Hond se Dinges
Oudolf de Lange
A mad-cap Afrikaans comedy set in a small town on the platteland. The plot revolves around a dog, and a diamond, and the assorted people who would like very much to get their hands on that diamond.
White Wedding
Mr. Fanie van Zyl
A young groom and his best man lost on the road trip to the wedding, run into a young English doctor. Set against South Africa's breathtaking landscapes, White Wedding is a high-spirited modern-day road comedy about love, commitment, intimacy, friendship, and the unbelievable obstacles that can get in the way of a fairy-tale ending.
The Flyer
Anders
The past and present collide when a kid from the mean streets of Cape Town is inducted into the gravity defying world of flying trapeze.
Max and Mona
Old Man September
Max Bua leaves his country life behind in hopes of becoming a doctor in Johannesburg, though the big city has different plans for him.
Jump the Gun
Johnny Fouché
Set in Johannesburg, JUMP THE GUN follows the tangled lives of six very different working class characters, formerly kept apart by apartheid and now all striving to succeed in the new "rainbow nation". United by their insecurities - both physical and financial - the film follows their struggle to discover their niche in this brave new world, where opportunity beckons, but violence is always lurking.
Lipstiek Dipstiek
Louis Kakiades (as Marchel van Heerden)
The story is about Poenie (Franscois Coertze) who burns his scrotum with a welding iron while working on his car and lands in hospital a few days before he is to marry the virgin Martie. This is the first mishap in a series of disasters and misunderstandings that provides many belly-clutching laughs. As Poenie's father Frikadel (Zak du Plessis) puts it, "Die seun sit sy voet uit die voordeur uit en dan is hy kniediep in die kak!"
In a Time of Violence: The Line
Fanie de Villiers
This controversial political thriller, which provoked mass demonstrations and nine deaths in South Africa when it was first shown, gives dramatic form to the African National Congress's basic program of reconcilliation within a non-racialist, democratic society. A train massacre by an Inkatha militant causes the sole witness to the crime to flee the Soweto townships to take refuge in Johannesburg; but the violence follows him when his ANC comrades try to buy guns for a retaliatory raid against Inkatha supporters.
El Evangelio Según Mateo
John the Baptist
Corre el año 62 a.C., y el ya anciano apóstol Mateo rememora los increíbles sucesos de los que fue testigo de joven. Al ver y oír su narración, los años se desvanecen y nos encontramos íntimamente involucrados en la vida de Jesús. Narración basada exclusivamente en el fiel texto de la Nueva Versión Internacional. Esta película narra el evangelio de Mateo versículo por versículo, fue grabada en Marruecos y Sudáfrica. Sin duda es una película que todo cristiano debería tener, se dirige a todo el publico tanto para niños como para ancianos.
Orkney Snork Nie (Die Movie)
Ouboet
We go on vacation to Margate with the van Tonder Family. Hendrik wants to go fishing, the kids swim and play Yollie and Maggie wants to sunbathe and Ouboet has a self built modded speedboat (Spuitpoep II) which he wants to test out at sea. Their dream vacation gets sabotaged by a Joburg company, who wants to buy the caravan park where they are vacationing to demolish it and build a shopping mall. But then they get to deal with the van Tonders who doesn't let anyone mess with them. Hillarious from beginning to end.
Taxi to Soweto
Armed Patrol Man
A Gentle story with a moral of forgive and forget at the kernel of its’ comedy exterior ~ but also one that accurately foretold the changes that were to sweep across South Africa in 1994, as an uptight suburban Johannesburg housewife (Elize Cawood, with an equally uptight husband played by Marius Weyers) accepts a lift from a Sowetan taxi driver (Patrick Shai) and gets taken into another world entirely
Nag van die 19de
Albert Kriel
Tessa walks through the small fishing community in her wedding dress every year on the night of the nineteenth, since she was raped on the eve of her wedding and her fiancé committed suicide. Piece-by-piece, she gathers information about the identity of the rapist.
Night of the Cyclone
Salvo
A big city police lieutenant travels to the tropics to find his daughter, who he finds involved with a very suspicious artist.
Mapantsula
Stander
Mapantsula tells the story of Panic, a petty gangster who inevitably becomes caught up in the growing anti-apartheid struggle and has to choose between individual gain and a united stand against the system.
El guerrero del amanecer
Lann
En un futuro post-apocalíptico, un guerrero experto en artes marciales que vaga por el desierto ayudará a unos pacíficos colonos amenazados por una banda de asesinos que desean el control del agua. Vehículo para lucimiento de Swayze que obtuvo malas críticas en Estados Unidos.
El rehén
Hussein
Un grupo de terroristas árabes secuestran un avión en vuelo a Nairobi. Entre los pasajeros se encuentra Tommy aquejado de una grave enfermedad, y tiene que llegar urgentemente al hospital es el nieto predilecto del coronel Shaw, curtido militar que decide planear el rescate.
The Outcast
A powerful story of three brothers who live by the axe; love from the heart; lust and hate with passion and die violently!
Savage Encounter
A honeymooning couple take a vacation in a remote country bungalow. Before long, they’re visited by two backwoods psychos. Terror, assault, and rape are inevitable. The U.S. video release from Genesis (released in 1988 under the title DEMON LUST) is missing ten minutes.