(Hilda Cronje)
South African film Twee
Grade van Moord (Two degrees of Murder) sees the onscreen reunion of two of
South Africa’s most loved and respected actors, Sandra Prinsloo and Marius
Weyers. It releases nationwide on July 22, 2016. Twee Grade van Moord is
set in Cape Town and directed by Gerrit Schoonhoven.
Aleksa Cloete
(Sandra Prinsloo), a well-known Cape Town psychologist, has authored a
bestseller, Love Doesn’t Hurt, but despite her long and happy marriage
to husband Ben (Marius Weyers), she has an entirely intellectual view of love.
Their only child Christiaan (Roelof Storm) was forced, while growing up, to
find much needed nurturing from his ‘second mother’, loyal housekeeper Fy
Abrahams (Shaleen Surtie-Richards).
When Aleksa agrees
to take part in a reality-style documentary about her breakthrough therapeutic
work with women who confuse pain with love, one of her patients,
Hilda Cronje, who
was born in Ladysmith and attended primary and high school in Dundee, takes the role of Tanya Basson who agrees to
be the case study.
Ben suffers a
debilitating heart attack and Tanya arrives at Aleksa’s home with the news that
she has killed her boyfriend during a heated row. Aleksa realises that she has
misjudged the severity of Tanya’s emotional state and, at the same time, Ben
tells her that he has reached a life-changing decision about the destiny of his
own life.
As the story
unfolds, Aleksa is forced to question her integrity and confront her ability to
make sacrifices for the people she cares about. Ultimately, she has to confront
the question: “What would love do now?”
The film also stars another local favourite, Shaleen
Surtie-Richards, best known for her title role in the 1988 feature film Fiela se Kind (Fiela's Child), and as
Ester (Nenna) Willemse in the M-Net soapie Egoli:
Place of Gold.
Twee Graade van Moord is produced by Barry
Strick of Inverse Films, and Full Faculty Films, in collaboration with
Waterfront Film Studios and the Department of Trade and Industry (dti). The
film is distributed in South Africa by Indigenous Film Distribution
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