LAND OF THIRST
Director: Meg Rickards
Based on the classic novella, "Margaret Harding" by Percevel Gibbon, "Land of Thirst" is a sweeping romantic epic of forbidden love set against the majestic backdrop of Africa at the start of the 20th century. Margaret, a beautiful young English woman, comes to the fresh African climate to treat her consumption and there falls in love with a handsome, African doctor, Khanyiso Phalo. But at the height of racist Colonial rule, such love can never be allowed to flourish. Made for SABC.

Starring Hlomla Dandala, Nina Lucy Wylde, Terry Norton, Stephen Jennings
Producer Julie Frederikse & Madoda Ncayiyana
Screenplay Meg Rickards
   

 

Genre Romantic Drama
Status Complete
Country South Africa
Year 2008
R.T.

99 mins

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