Silverton Siege is an upcoming South African film directed by Mandla Dube in his feature directorial debut. It is based on the real life siege that took place in Silverton, Pretoria in 1980. The film is scheduled for an international release on Netflix on 27 April 2022.[1]Silverton Siege 2022 Full Movie Download
The film had officially been in development for two years as of 2019. Upon reading about the real life Silverton Siege of 1980, Dube became inspired and began developing a script with fellow American Film Institute alumnus Sechaba Morojele as editor. Dube said the film would be about 60% factual, and that they would use creative license for the rest, wanting to make it “an entertaining story, not a documentary”. Principal photography took place on location in Pretoria. Production received funding from the National Film & Video Foundation.[2]The cast was announced alongside the release date announcement in March 2022; Thabo Rametsi, Noxolo Dlamini, and Stefan Erasmus would star as the Silverton trio alongside Arnold Vosloo, Tumisho Masha, Michelle Mosalakae, and Elani Dekker.Some silly cliches and tiresomely obvious liberal-balance contrivances have been pumped into this action-thriller for Netflix from South African director Mandla Dube, which is inspired by one of the most sensational events in anti-apartheid history: the Silverton siege in 1980. Three armed activists of the ANC’s uMkhonto we Sizwe (“spear of the nation”) wing – Humphrey Makhubo, Fanie Mafoko, and Wilfred Madela – occupied a bank in Silverton, Pretoria, after the chaotic abandonment of another operation to sabotage an oil plant, taking 25 people hostage and demanded the release of Nelson Mandela. Meanwhile armed officers grimly surrounded the building.The movie version turns these three men into two men and a woman, with different fictional names: Calvin (Thabo Rametsi), Aldo (Stefan Erasmus) and Terra (Noxolo Dlamini). In accordance with time-honoured Hollywood practice, the film invents a “good” white cop: Captain Langerman (Arnold Vosloo), a careworn, fair-minded guy who comes to respect the hostage-takers’ idealism. There is also a “bad” white cop, the fascistic brigadier (Justin Strydom), known as “Little Crocodile” in homage to South Africa’s “Big Crocodile” prime minister: apartheid strongman PW Botha. The brigadier of course overrules Langerman’s softer approach.