Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
Thomas Jane | ... | Andre Stander | |
Dexter Fletcher | ... | Lee McCall | |
David O'Hara | ... | Allan Heyl (as David Patrick O'Hara) | |
Deborah Kara Unger | ... | Bekkie Stander | |
Ashley Taylor | ... | Cor van Deventer | |
Marius Weyers | ... | General Stander | |
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At Botha | ... | General Viljoen |
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Lionel Newton | ... | Sergeant Smit |
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Melanie Merle | ... | Sharmiane |
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Sean Else | ... | Ed Janis |
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Peter Gardner | ... | Allums |
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Patrick Mynhardt | ... | Judge |
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Wikus du Toit | ... | Lawyer |
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Drummond Marais | ... | Prosecutor |
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Nicole Abel | ... | Young Lady |
In the early 1980's, a white police officer (Andres Stander, played by Thomas Jane) in Johannesburg suffers a crisis of conscience due to his involvement in apartheid and becomes a notorious bank robber on the run. Then from 1983 to 1984, the "Stander gang" (Stander, Alan Heyl & Patrick McCall) rob as many as four banks a day. Written by screenwritersutopia.com
I Just got back from a screening of This film at the Sundance film festival, and there are some corrections that need to be made from some of the other comments. After the screening the director did a Q&A where when asked was all this true, she said oddly enough "the outrageous stuff was true, and we had to add normal plot fillers to help it dramatically."
Stander never planned his robberies, he was a criminal who was sick of seeing the violence against the unarmed citizens, and tired of the crookedness of police life, that he rebelled against the system, just as a political act, not a need for money.
This film has plenty of great action scenes and alot of great comedy as well as brilliant acting by the whole cast, especially Thomas Jane who shines as Stander.
Outside of the violence and fun, there is a very powerful moral story, one of right and wrong, politics and the lonely life of a criminal. One theme I love was repeated throughout, and that is that the wrong man is always punished, or killed, when we should be looking at our government officials and their corruption, we spend too much time on the little criminals.
Very fascinating, and fun to watch, as well as thought provoking, once again the Q&A would answer all of the problems other posters had with the film, because the stuff they did not like was the actual facts behind the characters lives, just AMAZING!!