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''Morenga'' is a 1985 West German
drama film In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone. Drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional terms that specify its particular super-g ...
directed by
Egon Günther Egon Günther (30 March 1927 – 31 August 2017)
in:
. It is based on the 1978 novel '' Morenga'' by
Uwe Timm Uwe Timm (; born 30 March 1940 in Hamburg) is a German writer. Life and work Uwe Timm was born in the year 1940 in Hamburg. Uwe Timm was the youngest son in his family. His brother, 16 years his senior, was a soldier in the Waffen SS and died i ...
, and was entered into the 35th Berlin International Film Festival. It is set in the aftermath of the
Second Boer War The Second Boer War ( af, Tweede Vryheidsoorlog, , 11 October 189931 May 1902), also known as the Boer War, the Anglo–Boer War, or the South African War, was a conflict fought between the British Empire and the two Boer Republics (the Sout ...
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Cast

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Ken Gampu Ken Gampu (Germiston, August 28, 1929 – Vosloorus, November 4, 2003) was a South African actor. Before he began his career, Gampu was a physical training instructor, salesman, interpreter and police officer. His first acting job was in Athol ...
as Jacob Morenga *
Jacques Breuer Jacques Breuer (born October 20, 1956) is an Austrian screen and voice actor and film director living in Germany. His grandfather was the popular Austrian actor Siegfried Breuer and both his father, Siegfried Breuer jr., and his ten years younger ...
as Gottschalk * Edwin Noel as Wenstrup * Gideon Camm as Jakobus *
Jürgen Holtz Jürgen Holtz (10 August 193221 June 2020) was a German actor on stage and in film, and an artist and author. On stage he played leading roles in East Berlin, including with the Berliner Ensemble, and from 1983 in the West, in both classics suc ...
as v. Kageneck * Manfred Seipold as v. Koppy *
Tobias Hoesl Tobias Hoesl (born 29 September 1961 in Munich, West Germany) is a German television actor. Selected filmography *1984: ', TV miniseries *1985: '' Morenga'' … Baron von Treskow *1985: ''The Feather Fairy'' … Jacob *1986: ''The Black Forest C ...
as v. Treskow * Harrison Coburn as v. Schwanebach *
Arnold Vosloo Arnold Vosloo (born 16 June 1962) is a South African-American actor. He is famous for roles such as Imhotep in ''The Mummy'' and ''The Mummy Returns'', Colonel Coetzee in ''Blood Diamond'', Pik van Cleef in ''Hard Target'', Dr. Peyton Westlake ...
as v. Schiller *
Robert Whitehead Robert Whitehead (3 January 1823 – 14 November 1905) was an English engineer who was most famous for developing the first effective self-propelled naval torpedo. Early life He was born in Bolton, England, the son of James Whitehead, ...
as Haring *
Vernon Dobtcheff Vernon Dobtcheff (born 14 August 1934) is a British actor, best known for his roles on television and film, he has acted in numerous stage productions. Biography Dobtcheff was born in Nîmes, France, of Russian descent. He attended Ascham Prep ...
as Lohmann * Brian O'Shaughnessy as Herr Lüdemann


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* 1985 films 1980s historical films 1985 television films German historical films West German films 1980s German-language films Films directed by Egon Günther Films set in the 1900s Films set in Namibia Films based on German novels German television films German-language television shows Television shows based on German novels Das Erste original programming Colonialism in popular culture 1980s German films {{Germany-tv-film-stub