My Father's War (2016)
The truth will set you free
In this unique and riveting film, a troubled man has a series of dreams in which he finds himself thrown back to a time before his birth, into the Angolan Border War, as a combat soldier. There he meets his father as a young man, when he was a member of the Special Forces. As they go through combat together, the son gets to know his father in a way he never has, giving him insight and compassion, and he is able to let go of lifelong feelings of abandonment, resentment and anger. This leads to forgiveness and a real-life reconciliation, which drives home the underlying message of this film restoring the hearts of the fathers to the children and the hearts of the children to the fathers.
- Date of release
- 2016-08-05
- TMDB
- 7.0 / 10 (1)
- Runtime
- 1h 43m
- Genres
- Drama, War
- Director
- Craig Gardner
Casting
- Stian Bam — Dawid Smit
- Edwin van der Walt — Benjamin 'Dap' Smit
- Erica Wessels — Karina Smit
- Fumani Shilubana — Floyd Mabela
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