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The Guest: An Episode in the Life of Eugene Marais
The Guest: An Episode in the Life of Eugene Marais

THE GUEST: AN EPISODE IN THE LIFE OF EUGENE MARAIS

Directed by Ross Devenish
South Africa, 1977
Drama

Synopsis

Athol Fugard plays the Afrikaner intellectual, naturalist, poet, author and rebel Eugene Marais, who publicly attacked Kruger’s repressive Transvaal government and raised hackles by lecturing on ‘The Joys of Opium’.

Synopsis

Athol Fugard plays the Afrikaner intellectual, naturalist, poet, author and rebel Eugene Marais, who publicly attacked Kruger’s repressive Transvaal government and raised hackles by lecturing on ‘The Joys of Opium’.