A new 13-episode Afrikaans drama series with English subtitles, Nêrens, Noord-Kaap, produced by Nagvlug Films, will start on Tuesday 31 August on kykNET (DStv 144) at 20:00 with the script that is based on an award-winning play, revolving around 3 estranged brothers who find their way back to the family farm, Nêrens, where secrets, heartbreak, and the truth surrounding their mother's death threaten the path to redemption.
Nico Scheepers who wrote the play, adapted the text for television, with Saartjie Botha who assisted with text editing. Together they developed the play into a 13-episode family drama.
Nêrens, Noord-Kaap is directed by Nico and Johan Cronje.
The Nêrens, Noord-Kaap, cast includes, as in the original play, De Klerk Oelofse, Albert Pretorius and Geon Nel who portray the roles of the three Adendorff sons, Andries, Ronnie and Frans.
Frank Opperman portrays the role of their father.
Dean Balie appears as Jan-Jan (the foreman on the farm) and Ilse Klink portrays the role of Maggie, who plays an integral role in the raising of the three Adendorff boys.
Tinarie van Wyk-Loots, Marion Holm, Gideon Lombard, Ludwig Binge, Patricia Baadjies and Melissa Willering are also part of the cast.
Viewers will also be introduced to a few new faces: Johannes Jordaan, Lehan Swanepoel, and Thommi Swanepoel, who play the roles of the younger versions of Andries, Ronnie, and Frans. Arnold Swart also makes his TV debut as Lourens, Ronnie’s son from his failed marriage.
In Nêrens, Noord-Kaap, Lourens Adendorff, farmer and patriarch of this dry
kingdom, barely leaves the house anymore – the curtains of his sandstone castle
always drawn. His Dutch wife, Katja, has been dead nearly 20 years and all
three of his sons have abandoned him,
Frans, the eldest, still runs the farm but barely
speaks a word to his father.
Ronnie, the middle child, divorced in Cape Town
and is trying to raise his son from a distance. Andries, the youngest, their
father’s favourite, has shunned them all and has been backpacking around the world
for the last couple of years.
The family is in pieces, and the farm is stuck,
stagnating in time and place.
"When writing the stage play I wanted to tap into a
specific Afrikaans vein, and to further explore that in the drama series – this
familiar world of open skies, love and land that's written in our heritage," says Nico Scheepers. "In the end, I dedicate it to my own father."
Nagvlug Films is also responsible for the dramas and movies such as Hotel,
Wonderlus, Posbus 1, Meisies wat Fluit, Barakat, and Skemerdans.
