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Title: Anyone seen the movie "Morenga" (1985) ?
Post by: traveller on 12 September 2010, 09:25:59 AM
This movie should portray the Hottentott leader Morengas uprising in SW Africa early 20th century. I cannot find in available anywhere on DVD. Anyone seen it?

 Morenga (1985) 

Based on a novel of the same title by Uwe Timm and set in 1904 in South Africa, this is an uneven tale of war and intrigue between native South Africans, German colonialists, and British colonialists, a war no one really wins. Gottschalk (Jacques Breuer) and Wenstrup (Edwin Noel) are two German veterinarians who have settled in German Southwest Africa to tend to the needs of cattle ranchers. When a rebellion by a local dissident named Morenga (Ken Gampu) is brutally crushed by the Germans, the two vets get involved, at great risk to themselves, and offer help to the native revolutionaries. What follows is a sequence of battles and skirmishes that ultimately lead to Morenga seeking asylum in South Africa, where the ruling Brits are about as trustworthy as their German counterparts. Morenga was nominated for a Golden Bear award at the 1985 ~Berlin Film Festival
Title: Re: Anyone seen the movie "Morenga" (1985) ?
Post by: Blackwolf on 12 September 2010, 10:22:11 AM
No. However it sounds very good,I'd like to know if your successful in your trawl.


  Greywolf
Title: Re: Anyone seen the movie "Morenga" (1985) ?
Post by: traveller on 12 September 2010, 01:27:56 PM
Quote from: Greywolf on 12 September 2010, 10:22:11 AM
No. However it sounds very good,I'd like to know if your successful in your trawl.


No success so far. It see,s to be a 3 DVD series though. I hope some of the German LAFers might have some clues where it can be purchased. Found some more info here:

http://www.wunschliste.de/9145
Title: Re: Anyone seen the movie "Morenga" (1985) ?
Post by: Arthur on 12 September 2010, 10:27:19 PM
The IMDB's your friend :

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0124011/ (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0124011/)

I checked out amazon.de and hit a blank : it doesn't look like the miniseries has been released on DVD so far.
Title: Re: Anyone seen the movie "Morenga" (1985) ?
Post by: starkadder on 16 September 2010, 04:28:35 AM
I found a few reviews of it and, of course, the book.
It didn't meet with great critical acclaim shall we say.
Title: Re: Anyone seen the movie "Morenga" (1985) ?
Post by: traveller on 16 September 2010, 11:50:02 AM
Quote from: starkadder on 16 September 2010, 04:28:35 AM
I found a few reviews of it and, of course, the book.
It didn't meet with great critical acclaim shall we say.

you mean the book or the movie? The movie managed to get an award at least on the Berlin Film festival...
Title: Re: Anyone seen the movie "Morenga" (1985) ?
Post by: traveller on 24 August 2013, 09:31:59 PM
I just saw that Amazon have it for release Nov 13  ;D
Title: Re: Anyone seen the movie "Morenga" (1985) ?
Post by: former user on 25 August 2013, 02:29:55 PM
Hottentot

we say Namaqua or simply Nama nowadays, as we have stopped saying Black too  ;)

the one above is pretty derogatory