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Darling! The Pieter-Dirk Uys Story (Page 2)


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When the film’s director, Julian Shaw, was 15 years old he saw a show in Sydney that was to change his life. That night, just one entertainer took to the stage – a political satirist from South Africa named Pieter-Dirk Uys. A well-known opponent of apartheid, Uys soon became a dedicated activist against Aids. Uys’ alter ego is Evita Bezuidenhout, South Africa’s ‘most famous white woman’. During his performance in Sydney, Uys railed passionately and with irresistibly dark humour against what he described as the ‘new apartheid’ – for which he held the South African government responsible, because it had abandoned the next generation to fend for itself against the virus, unprotected.
After the performance, Julian Shaw approached the entertainer and asked him if he could make a documentary about him. Pieter-Dirk Uys agreed. This portrait is the result.
Under apartheid, Uys managed to disseminate the most hard-hitting truths about the country’s white minority government by placing them in the mouth of his most famous, heavily made-up creation – Evita Bezuidenhout. This persona of a critical drag queen was to make him a national celebrity. Today he has taken up the fight against Aids – and polarised the country. Pieter-Dirk Uys has performed his ‘Aids awareness entertainment’ to over a million schoolchildren, and has toured South Africa and Germany. The film intersperses footage of his performances with biographical sequences during which Uys, who is of Afrikaans-Jewish heritage, talks about his life and his career: “Nobody knows anything about me. Nobody knows anything about my private life and nobody comes into my home with a camera – except you.”
 
 


Video: Darling! The Pieter-Dirk Uys Story

Video: Darling! The Pieter-Dirk Uys Story

Video: Darling! The Pieter-Dirk Uys Story

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Darling! The Pieter-Dirk Uys Story
by Julian Shaw
Australien
Digital Betacam / 054 min / Englisch/Ohne ST
Pieter-Dirk Uys, Nelson Mandela; Desmond Tutu
Prod: Green Light Productions.
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Screenings at the festival
13.02.08 CineStar 7 22:30
14.02.08 CineStar 7 17:00
15.02.08 CineStar 7 13:00
16.02.08 Cubix 7 17:30
 
 

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