The Flawed Genius of Jan Smuts
2016•1h 1m•9.0•Released
DocumentaryHistory
Jan Smuts is a foremost political figure in South African 20th Century History, and is recognised today by two of the world's leading historians as being at the very centre of the vision for a new world order that emerges from the League of Nations and the United Nations.. Yet, he is virtually persona non grata in his own country.... and largely ignored in school history books. This one hour drama-documentary, with its dramatised cameo scenes in which his look-alike grandson takes on the role of Jan Smuts, battle re-enactments, historical archival footage, comments from historians, political analysts, and South African political struggle heroes, looks back on his life and the circumstances that shaped it in search of some answers.
Director
Sandra Herrington
Writer
Sandra Herrington
Studio
Tekweni Media
Production
Company
Tekweni Media
Producer
Neville Herrington
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