Winning a Continent

This epic film was one of the first South African dramatic film productions. It tells the story of the Boers’ Great Trek at the end of the 1830s, concluding with a hegemonic reconstruction of the 1838 Battle of Blood River, where a few hundred armed Afrikaners defeated several thousand Zulus.

Cast

Dick Cruikshanks

Piet Retief

Caroline Frances Cooke

Lenie Retief

Jackie Turnbull

Piet Retief Junior

Bobby Rowson

Willie van Rensburg

Stephen Ewart

Gen. Pretorius

M.A. Wetherell

Karel Landman

Mabel Rushton

Mrs. Landman

Edna Flugrath

Johanna Landman

Julius Royston

Louis Perreira

Charles Kitts

José Diaz