Pavement Aristocrats - The Bergies of Cape Town

Name: Pavement Aristocrats - The Bergies of Cape Town
Genre: Documentary
Duration: 58 min
Cast: Pieter-Dirk Uys

Movie

StarringPieter-Dirk Uys

DirectorFrançois Verster

NR 58 minDocumentary

Plot

Looks at a group of homeless people, the Bergies, in Cape Town, South Africa. Through a series of interviews, the film traces the Bergie community back to their Khoisan roots, outlines colonial dispossession, and looks at problems with alcohol dependency. It also gives the community a chance to tell their story, by zooming in on the daily life of two couples

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