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'Moffie' Director Oliver Hermanus on the Toxic Masculinity of Apartheid

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For his first film on Apartheid, South African director Oliver Hermanus did not expect to focus on the trauma of white men. Hermanus, who was born in Cape Town and now lives in London, is mixed race, the group labeled "colored" under the racist regime that ruled South Africa until the early 1990s.

But Moffie, his first film set in the apartheid era, is told from the white point of view. The film is set in the early 1980s.

We follow Nicholas van der Swart (Kai Luke Brummer), a shy, closeted gay recruit drafted, like all white men over 16 in South Africa at the time, to do a mandatory two years of military service.

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