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Proteus

Rating:No Rating
Genre:Drama
Release Date:July 30, 2004
Running time:97 minutes
Cast:Tessa Jubber, Terry Norton, Adrienne Pearce, Grant Swanby, Brett Goldin
Director:John Greyson, Jack Lewis
Producer:Steven Markovitz, Anita Lee, Platon Trakoshis
Writer:John Greyson, Jack Lewis
Distributor:Strand Releasing

Description: A recreation of the decade-long love affair in the 18th century in a Cape Town penal colony on Robin Island. The two lovers were a Dutch sailor imprisoned there for sodomy and a young Khoi herder. The Khoi were part of the Hottentot tribal group and as such were the untouchables of that time. The two were placed on trial and this love affair and the legal battles are the grist of Greyson and Lewis' film based partly on court transcripts from the time. In South Africa, during the 1700s, sodomy was a crime deemed worse than murder, and the fact that these two young men had indulged in it was also complicated by the fact that this was an interracial love affair.

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