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Kraanspoor 50
1033 SE Amsterdam
tel: +31 (0)20 3143322
fax: + 31 (0)20 3143300
e-mail: film@idtv.nl
Stellenbosch - television series
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The series Stellenbosch comprises seven 50-minute episodes and is about a Dutch family that emigrated to South Africa in the 1950s. The story starts in 1994 with the election of Nelson Mandela as president and ends in eight years later in 2002. While the world changes at breakneck speed in South Africa, we follow the Keppel family, their children and grandchildren, through the ups and downs of life and see how fate, or is it history, has left its mark on the lives of three generations and how the characters wrestle to escape from this. While the story is set in both the Netherlands and South Africa, the farm called Arkadia in the vicinity of Stellenbosch in the West Cape of South Africa is the central location in the series. It is also the spot where the fate of the Keppel family is sealed and where their future will be decided too. As in a classic family saga, there are different storylines that come together in the last episode. There is the story of the crime once committed for which forgiveness has to be begged; the story of the true love between the eldest son Henk Jr and the pretty Shelley; the story of the battle for the farm and the story of Henkâs obsession to make the best wine in the world. Protagonist Henk Jr and his sister Betty are continually confronting each other with their incompatible interests while they both really want to do what is best. Stories about guilt and penance, love and death, but all these storylines come together with one question: who has a right to the land of Arkadia? STELLENBOSCH will be broadcasted on sundays at Dutch television starting November 4 (Ned. 2, 20:15)
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