Yankee Zulu
| Movie | |
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| German title | Yankee Zulu |
| Original title | Yankee Zulu / There's a Zulu On My Stoep |
| Country of production | South Africa |
| original language | English / Afrikaans |
| Publishing year | 1993 |
| length | 90 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Gray Hofmeyr |
| script | Gray Hofmeyr, Leon Schuster |
| production | Edgar Bold, Carl Fischer, Andre Scholtz |
| music | Zane Kronje, Stanislas Syrewicz |
| camera | James Robb |
| cut | Alastair Henderson, Johan Lategan, Tiny Laubscher, Gerrie Van Wyk |
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Yankee Zulu (Alternative title: There's a Zulu On My Stoep ) is a South African film comedy from the year 1993 . The film addresses apartheid in a satirical way .
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As children, Rhino and Zulu were best friends and went through thick and thin together. At least until Rhino fell in love with snobby, racist Rowena. As a proof of love, this demanded that he should shoot a can with a rifle from the head of Zulu, which meant the end of the friendship.
Twelve years later: Zulu went to America and is a regular in federal prison as a petty criminal. After his last car theft, he was expelled and sent back to Africa, where the racist law enforcement officer Diehard was waiting for him. During the drive to the community prison, Diehard discovers that he has a scratch card with a profit in the millions. The clever prisoner takes this from him without further ado and runs off with his company car.
Rhino doesn't have it easier now. His ex-wife Rowena, now married to Diehard, claims ownership of his farm if he cannot repay his debts to her. He also has to look after his adopted daughter Tienkie.
As luck would have it, the paths of the old friends cross again. After initial difficulties, they agree to redeem the scratch card together and share the winnings. You drive to the entertainment center, from which the handover of the check is to be broadcast live on television. But Diehard and Rowena are also after the two at gunpoint. While Tienkie is watching " Kevin - Home Alone " in the cinema, where she accidentally meets the English Prince William and befriends him , Rhino and Zulu try to hide somewhere in the building. They get into one of the cloakrooms, where a make- up artist helps them to camouflage themselves. Rhino is made black by him and Zulu is given the mask of a blond, blue-eyed white man.
When Zulu runs into Rowena, he introduces himself to her as a racist baron and Rhino as his underprivileged house servant. She is delighted and invites the supposed aristocrat to dinner in her and Diehard's estate, where a meeting of the neo-Nazi group “VURZ” ( Association of Oppressed Central African Reactionaries ) is taking place.
Due to a chain of unfortunate circumstances, their camouflage is blown and Diehard ships them to the Crocodile Gorge, where, if they don't hand over the check, he wants to reproach them to the wild animals.
But Tienkie and Prince William free Rhino and Zulu and make life difficult for Diehard and Rowena with nasty tricks inspired by their cinema visits.
In the end, good wins, Diehard and Rowena are eliminated, the friendship between Rhino and Zulu is restored and it turns out that Tienkie is actually Zulu's daughter, who was only born after he left for the United States.
Reviews
- Cinema : “ Gray Hofmeyr's slapstick comedy went down in film history as the first uncensored and to date most successful film in South Africa. "
- Lexicon of international films : “ A Jerry Lewis film , Tom and Jerry cartoons and the Kevin films shamelessly exploitative comedy, which pretends to be an apartheid satire , but with its mostly cheap gags only confirms racist prejudice. "
Web links
- Yankee Zulu in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Yankee Zulu in the Lexicon of International Films , accessed April 14, 2012