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Directed by | Jason Xenopoulos |
Written by | Karel Schoeman (novel) Jason Xenopoulos |
Starring | Nick Boraine |
Music by | Arvo Pärt |
Release date(s) | 2002 |
Running time | 100 min. |
Country | South Africa |
Language | English |
Budget | >R15 |
Promised Land is a 2002 film based on the 1978 English translation of the award-winning Afrikaans novel, Na die Geliefde Land (1972) by the South African author, Karel Schoeman.
The film was directed by Jason Xenopoulos and starred Nick Boraine, Lida Botha, Wilma Stõckenstrom, Louis van Niekerk, Tobie Cronje, Grant Swanby, Daniel Browde, Ian Roberts, Dan Robbertse and Yvonne van den Bergh. It was made on a budget of just over R15 (~2US$).
It won the Best Screenplay Award at the Tokyo International Film Festival in 2002.
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