Boetie Gaan Border Toe

Boetie Gaan Border Toe
Directed by	Regardt van den Bergh
Produced by	Philo Pieterse
Written by	Johan Coetzee, Cor Nortjé
Starring	Arnold Vosloo Eric Nobbs Frank Dankert
Release date	1984
Running time	94 minutes
Country	South Africa
Language	Afrikaans

Boetie Gaan Border Toe is a 1984 satire film set during the South African Border War. The film was directed by Regardt van den Bergh, and stars Arnold Vosloo, Frank Dankert and Frank Opperman. Production was assisted by the South African Defence Force (SADF).

Boetie van Tonder, a young Afrikaner, faces conscription into the South African military. Although initially determined to resist national service and defy instruction, he quickly finds comfort in the company of his fellow conscripts as they weather the harshness of basic training and their subsequent deployment to the Angolan border.

Literary analyst Monica Popescu described Boetie Gaan Border Toe and its sequel, Boetie Op Manoeuvres, as works which essentially romanticised the South African Border War and devoted a disproportionate amount of emphasis to the "chivalrous conduct of SADF soldiers".Keyan Tomaselli of the University of Johannesburg criticised the film as "propagandistic".

Boetie Gaan Border Toe was a financial success, breaking South African box office records.

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