The Harvesters

Released Sep 13, 2019

1h 46m

Drama

LGBTQ+

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A young man competes for his mother's love when she welcomes a hardened street orphan into their home in South Africa.

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So, for your very first film as director, you decide to pick a couple of kids who'd never been in a film before as your leads, and you require those kids, both about fifteen, to play gay in a region of South Africa that's almost a time warp to the days of Apartheid, an area of stultifying religious bigots who are also racists. That's chutzpah or insanity, perhaps a bit of both. Worked out pretty well actually; the film was selected to screen at Cannes in the Un Certain Regard category, and one of the kids, Alex van Dyk, age 15, was nominated for Best Supporting Actor in the South African equivalent of the Oscars. Not too, shabby, that.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

01/21/23

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Etienne Kallos

Director

Brent Vermeulen

Janno

Alex van Dyk

Pieter

Juliana Venter

Marie

Morné Visser

Jan

Erica Wessels

Anel

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Gary Goldstein

Los Angeles Times

This darkly powerful psychodrama finds fear and tension in its hermetic world of rural farming and religious immersion amid the almost contradictory beauty of its sprawling South African locale.

Sep 26, 2019

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Boyd van Hoeij

Hollywood Reporter

A slow-burning and increasingly suffocating variation on the myth of Cain and Abel, The Harvesters (Die Stropers) is the impressive feature debut from Greek-South African filmmaker Etienne Kallos.

May 16, 2018

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Guy Lodge

Variety

This sternly moving, vividly shot rural drama draws quasi-Biblical resonance from its tale of teenage foster brothers locked in a familial and cultural power struggle on a remote farmstead.

May 15, 2018

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Emily Wheeler

Film Inquiry

It's a film with uncomfortable weight, one that slowly but surely crushes you in the way any society presses on those who don't fit in.

Sep 13, 2019

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Brian Orndorf

Blu-ray.com

"The Harvesters" is an unsettling feature at times, but also intensely atmospheric.

Rated: B

Sep 12, 2019

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Joshua Speiser

Film Threat

One of the best measures of a film is its resonance, its ability to stick with you long after you have left the theater or turned off your screen. By that measure, The Harvesters is a resounding success.

Rated: 8/10

Apr 22, 2019

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Synopsis

A young man competes for his mother's love when she welcomes a hardened street orphan into their home in South Africa.

Director: Etienne Kallos
Producer: Annette Fausbøll, Julien Favre, Jean-Alexandre Luciani, Lwazi Manzi
Screenwriter: Etienne Kallos
Distributor: Altered Innocence
Production Co: Lava Films, Cinema Defacto, Heretic, Spier Films, Bord Cadre Films
Genre: Drama, LGBTQ+
Original Language: Afrikaans
Release Date (Theaters): Sep 13, 2019, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Dec 6, 2019
Runtime: 1h 46m
Aspect Ratio: Scope (2.35:1)

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