Aug 26, 2018
123 min
Full-HD

Canary (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.

Category

Music Drama

Country

South Africa

Companies

Marche Media kykNET

Schalk Bezuidenhout

Johan Niemand

Hannes Otto

Wolfgang Müller

Germandt Geldenhuys

Ludolf Otterman

Gérard Rudolf

Reverend Koch

Jacques Bessenger

Reverend Engelbrecht

Francois Jacobs

Tiaan Taljaard

De Klerk Oelofse

Walter "Rambo" Boonzaaier

Ludwig Binge

Daan Goosen

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