Katrina (Katinka Heyns, Cobus Rossouw, Joe Stewardson) (DVD)

"Based on Basil Warner´s "Try for white" the story concerns the question of love across the colour line, as well as the moral issues facing "coloureds" whose light complexions allowed them to live as whites. The protagonists are Alex Trewellyn, the new parish priest, who falls in love with Catherine Winters, a widow; her son Paul recently qualified as a doctor in England, and the embittered coloured leader, Adam September, who is in reality, Catherine´s brother. He wants Katrina to return to the fold to help her own people. In retrospect the film is not the courageous statement many assumed it to be. It had a number of white actors playing roles that should have been taken by coloureds. In addition, both script and acting, were poor. But nonetheless, it is considered something of a milestone in South Africa´s film history."