Canary

Canary

123 mins | Drama, Music | May 29, 2018

Kanarie (Afrikaans for 'Canary') is a coming-of-age musical war drama. Drafted into the South African army during apartheid, a young soldier joins the military's traveling choir, and romance on the battlefield causes him to deal with his long-repressed sexual identity through hardship, camaraderie, first love, and the liberating freedom of music, the true self can be discovered.

Canary

123 mins | Drama, Music | May 29, 2018

Canary
Kanarie (Afrikaans for 'Canary') is a coming-of-age musical war drama. Drafted into the South African army during apartheid, a young soldier joins the military's traveling choir, and romance on the battlefield causes him to deal with his long-repressed sexual identity through hardship, camaraderie, first love, and the liberating freedom of music, the true self can be discovered.
IMDb rating 7.5
Producers Marche Media
Original title Kanarie
Directors Christiaan Olwagen, Jaco Smit
Writers Charl-Johan Lingenfelder, Christiaan Olwagen

Cast

Schalk Bezuidenhout

as Johan Niemand

Hannes Otto

as Wolfgang

Gérard Rudolf

as Ds Koch

Jacques Bessenger

as Ds Engelbrecht

David Viviers

as Kevin (Soutpiel)

De Klerk Oelofse

as Rambo

Francois Jacobs

as Tiaan (Craven-A)

Andrico Goosen

as Ruan ‘Lobster’

Ludwig Binge

as Daan

Albert Pretorius

as Nightclub Bully