Canary

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📊 Film Specifications

Director Christiaan Olwagen

Writer Charl-Johan Lingenfelder (Screenplay), Christiaan Olwagen (Screenplay)

Original Title Kanarie

Release Date August 26, 2018

Runtime 123 min (2h 3m)

Country South Africa

Language AF

Budget N/A

Box Office N/A

Studios Marche Media • kykNET

Canary (2018)

Directed by Christiaan Olwagen

• Written by Charl-Johan Lingenfelder , Christiaan Olwagen

⭐ 3.3 / 5 (21 votes) ⏱️ 123 min 🎬 Music, Drama

Ratings Breakdown:

21 ratings

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Synopsis

Kanarie (Afrikaans for 'Canary') is a coming-of-age musical war drama. Drafted into the South African army during apartheid, a young soldier joins the military's traveling choir, and romance on the battlefield causes him to deal with his long-repressed sexual identity through hardship, camaraderie, first love, and the liberating freedom of music, the true self can be discovered.

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Christiaan Olwagen

Charl-Johan Lingenfelder

Christiaan Olwagen

Schalk Bezuidenhout

Wolfgang Müller

Germandt Geldenhuys

Ludolf Otterman

Jacques Bessenger

Reverend Engelbrecht

Francois Jacobs

De Klerk Oelofse

Walter "Rambo" Boonzaaier

Ruan "Lobster" Swart

Corporal Crunchie

Laudo Liebenberg