When the spoilt daughter of a mining tycoon wants to marry a money-grabbing womaniser, her father sends her to Johannesburg for a month. If she can live on R50, she can marry the man, he says. She befriends a poor student who pays for his studies by singing in a club. While he is falling in love with her, she can’t wait for the month to pass to get married. —mnetcorporate.co.za
Pierre de Wet can be regarded as the father of the Afrikaans language motion picture. Starting his career in films as an actor (specifically in Joseph Albrecht’s groundbreaking Afrikaans drama Moedertjie, 1931) he became a writer, producer and director for African Film Productions and unleashed the comedic talents of Al Debbo and Frederik Burgers on the SA public in films such as Hier’s Ons Weer, Dis Lekker Om Te Lewe. Allies Sal Regkom Fratse In Die Vloot and the first Afrikaans musical motion picture, Kom Saam Vanaand. —www.movies4africa.co.za