A sad little man dreams of revolution while filing papers—until his fantasy becomes dangerously real.
Lafras Verwey (58) has worked as a clerk in the Civil Service in Pretoria for thirty years. By day he sorts files and whiles away the mundane hours writing grandiose propaganda speeches and drilling imaginary platoons in the washroom, but unbeknownst to his colleagues he is also a clandestine parcel courier for a secret organization that recruited his services to complete their covert mission.
Acting
Tobie Cronjé's absolutely committed, pathetic grandeur.
Direction
Barnard lets you squirm in Lafras's skin without mercy.
Director
Chris Barnard
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Set in post-apartheid Pretoria, the film explores how Afrikaner civil servants processed their sudden irrelevance—a rarely seen perspective in South African cinema.
The washroom drill scenes were improvised; Cronjé spent weeks studying military parade videos to nail the precise physicality of a man who's only ever marched alone.
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