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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.

DramaMusic
Schalk Bezuidenhout
Johan Niemand
Germandt Geldenhuys
Ludolf Otterman
Hannes Otto
Wolfgang Müller
Jacques Bessenger
Reverend Engelbrecht
Gérard Rudolf
Reverend Koch