
Winning a Continent
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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
- D
Dick Cruikshanks
Piet Retief

Caroline Frances Cooke
Lenie Retief
- J
Jackie Turnbull
Piet Retief Junior
- B
Bobby Rowson
Willie van Rensburg
- S
Stephen Ewart
Gen. Pretorius

M.A. Wetherell
Karel Landman
- M
Mabel Rushton
Mrs. Landman
- E
Edna Flugrath
Johanna Landman
- J
Julius Royston
Louis Perreira
- C
Charles Kitts
José Diaz
- W
William Harbord
Willem Faber
- H
Helene Morris
Mrs. Faber
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