What You Sow (1979)
Wat Jy Saai
A bleak and violent story of delinquency and broken family ties. Christiaan MacDonald escapes from the reformatory where he has been serving a sentence for car theft and asks his sister Dina for help. When his father tells Christiaan he is adopted, and furthermore is banished from the MacDonald family, the young man responds with criminal behavior that rip the family apart.
- Date of release
- 1979-08-29
- Runtime
- 1h 23m
- Genres
- Drama
- Director
- Tim Spring
Casting
- Regardt van den Bergh — Dr. Fritz Krynauw
- Janet Du Plessis — Dina MacDonald
- Cornelis Esterhuyse — Herman MacDonald
- Willie Esterhuizen — Christiaan MacDonald
- Flip Theron — Police Sergeant
- Johan Bernard — Hannes Vermeulen
- Bill Flynn — Bobby Griesel
- Hetty van Oord — Mimi Coetzee
- Elize Cawood — Miss van Dyk
- James Borthwick — Minister
- Barry Trengrove — Lawyer
- Lourens Swanepoel — Advocate
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