The Boers at the End of the World

The Boers at the End of the World 2015 Released

Directed by Richard Finn Gregory

Documentary · 1h 25min

 

The Boers at the End of the World 2015 Released

Directed by Richard Finn Gregory

Documentary · 1h 25min

 

In remote Patagonia, a 100-year-old community of Afrikaans Boers struggles to keep their language and culture alive, while longing to be reunited with their distant families in South Africa.

In a remote stretch of Patagonia, Argentina, there is a family - the Dickasons - who speak a language from a country 7,000km to the east. They are part of a 114-year-old Afrikaans Boer community - South Africans of Dutch descent who sailed across the ocean to South America after the destruction of a war with the British. Today, less than 50 still speak the language and they struggle to... see more

In remote Patagonia, a 100-year-old community of Afrikaans Boers struggles to keep their language and culture alive, while longing to be reunited with their distant families in South Africa.

In a remote stretch of Patagonia, Argentina, there is a family - the Dickasons - who speak a language from a country 7,000km to the east. They are part of a 114-year-old Afrikaans Boer community - South Africans of Dutch descent who sailed across the ocean to South America after the destruction of a war with the British. Today, less than 50 still speak the language and they struggle to... see more
RELEASED
05 Aug, 2015
COUNTRY
ZA
LANGUAGE
AF
SPOKEN
Afrikaans, English, Spanish
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