Canary

Canary

6.5IMDb Score
Released:2018-08-26
Duration:123 min
Country:South Africa
Director:Christiaan Olwagen
Actors:Schalk Bezuidenhout, Hannes Otto, Germandt Geldenhuys, Gérard Rudolf, Jacques Bessenger
Production:Marche Media, kykNET

Overview:

Kanarie (Afrikaans for 'Canary') is a coming-of-age musical war drama. Drafted into the South African army during apartheid, a young soldier joins the military's traveling choir, and romance on the battlefield causes him to deal with his long-repressed sexual identity through hardship, camaraderie, first love, and the liberating freedom of music, the true self can be discovered.

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