South African actors breathe new life to ’80s story
JOBURG - What do you do when your past catches up with you? But even worse, when your worst nightmares are coming true? This is the dilemma the country’s most well-known and popular writer struggles with in his novels.
It also seems as if all his hit novels are based on the same girl, Lena Aucamp, his school love, and his best friend, Jan-Paul Otto, also features prominently in most of his stories.
What are facts and what is fiction?
This question haunts journalists and friends when Jacques Rynhard does not show up when the Basson Prize for literature would have been awarded to him.
Chaos ensues among everyone who knows him and Carina Human quickly realises that each of his colleagues or friends has something to hide and that she’ll have to move mountains to discover the truth.
In the meantime, her cruel editor, Gavin Greeff, watches her like a hawk and her career is dependent on her revealing as many scandals as possible.
But Carina discovers more than just superficial gossip, especially when she visits Jacques’s mother, the bitter Liebet Rynhard, who still lives in her little railway house next to the train tracks.
What secrets is she hiding and why do trains play such a prominent role in Jacques’s life?
Could something have happened on a train that radically changed his developmental years?
Leon van Nierop’s Ballade vir Enkeling will entertain, shock, intrigue and transport you with its story based on the hit TV series of the ’80s that mesmerised the country.
Well-known South African actors Donnalee Roberts, Rolanda Marais, Armand Aucamp and Jacques Bessenger, as well as newcomers Christia Visser, Edwin van Jaarsveld, Luan Jacobs, Miles Petzer and a few others worked together with The Film Factory and gave a whole new look to this iconic TV series.
