The Story of Klara Viljee
Directed by Katinka Heyns1992 1h 53mDrama
8.48.0
This affirming story of one woman's struggle to free herself from the past, and how that affects the small fishing village where she lives, shows that faith can move mountains, or unmake them. When the seamstress Klara loses her father and her fiance at sea, she decides she never wants to see the ocean again. She builds her house behind a huge sand dune, and even refuses to eat fish. Several years later, however, she receives news that makes her start carting away the dune, bucket load by bucket load. It turns out her boyfriend is alive, and that hes been living in Cape Town for the past six years. He ran off because he made a local girl pregnant a pregnancy attributed to the local schoolmaster. As the villagers watch Klara move the dune, they begin examining their own lives, and the entire community undergoes a wondrous rejuvenation.
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The Story of Klara Viljee was released on January 31, 1992.
The Story of Klara Viljee was directed by Katinka Heyns.
The Story of Klara Viljee has a runtime of 1h 53m.
The Story of Klara Viljee was produced by Edgar Bold, Riaan du Plessis, Katinka Heyns, Brigid Olen.
This affirming story of one woman's struggle to free herself from the past, and how that affects the small fishing village where she lives, shows that faith can move mountains, or unmake them. When the seamstress Klara loses her father and her fiance at sea, she decides she never wants to see the ocean again. She builds her house behind a huge sand dune, and even refuses to eat fish. Several years later, however, she receives news that makes her start carting away the dune, bucket load by bucket load. It turns out her boyfriend is alive, and that hes been living in Cape Town for the past six years. He ran off because he made a local girl pregnant a pregnancy attributed to the local schoolmaster. As the villagers watch Klara move the dune, they begin examining their own lives, and the entire community undergoes a wondrous rejuvenation.
The key characters in The Story of Klara Viljee are Michelle Scott, Anna-Mart van der Merwe, Regardt van den Bergh.
The Story of Klara Viljee is a Drama film.
The Story of Klara Viljee has an audience rating of 8.4 out of 10.