Pierre van Pletzen

Pierre van Pletzen

Born: January 1, 1952
in Stilfontein, Western Transvaal, South Africa

Movies for Pierre van Pletzen...

Hans steek die Rubicon oor
Title: Hans steek die Rubicon oor
Character: Hans
Released: September 28, 2023
Type: Movie
A widower, Hans (90), is forced into a repressive old-age-home. Once there, he comes face to face with the draconian management, who forces him to become a rebel and activist, a 90-year-old-man who has nothing to lose by revolting. An anti-ageism revolution about growing old on your own terms.
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Title: Projek Dina
Character: Albert
Released: January 14, 2020
Type: TV
A south African series that takes place in the work and life environment of the emergency response task force, where the pressure is sky high and the room for error is tiny. Now that the task force has just been set up by the Western Cape police - as a way to combat the rapidly increasing cases of missing persons in South Africa - the members of the task force have a seemingly impossible task at hand: to find the missing persons in Cape Town and bring them home one by one.
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Meerkat Moonship
Title: Meerkat Moonship
Character: Oupa Willem
Released: March 16, 2018
Type: Movie
Timid, wildly imaginative 13-year-old Gideonette de La Rey learns that the name she was given comes with it a horrible curse. After her father dies, Gideonette is paralyzed by fear and is sent to live on a farm in the forest with her grandparents where she befriends a young deaf boy who is “training” to become an astronaut and preparing to fly away in a Moonship that Gideonette’s grandfather had built.
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Title: Die Byl
Character: Ian du Plessis
Released: July 12, 2016
Type: TV
The unit specializes in the investigation of serial murders and is led by Van der Bijl, a former murder and robbery detective who gained fame for his handling of several high-profile cases. Each episode focuses on a serial killer. The main character, Colonel Piet van der Bijl, also known as Die Byl, is loosely modeled on the famous ex-detective Piet Byleveld.
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Title: Die Boekklub
Character: Piet Smit
Released: January 12, 2016
Type: TV
The series tells the story of Tom Niemandt who receives an unexpected call that leads him to the Karoo. While trying to make sense of Merweville, the village in the Karoo, he meets a group of people who change his life irrevocably.
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Title: 7de Laan
Character: Septimus "Oubaas" van Zyl
Released: April 4, 2000
Type: TV
7de Laan is an extraordinary microcosm where good and bad, evil and wholesome characters find themselves forming part of a wholesome community where no matter what – everyone counts and everyone cares…
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Panic Mechanic
Title: Panic Mechanic
Character: Coetzee
Released: November 29, 1996
Type: Movie
When Hanky Pranky (alias Schucks), star of a candid camera TV show, loses his job to affirmative action, he applies for a job at a stress academy. It´s not long before Schucks discovers his new boss, Jack Paddaman, is as crooked as they come, but it´s too late: the employment contract is signed and sealed.A year passes, and Schucks is no better off. However, his candid camera videos, which poke fun at all sectors of post-1994 South Africa, prove a big hit with stressed-out government ministers. When the president asks Paddaman to make a movie to benefit street children, Schucks and his pals do all the hard work while Paddaman plans how he can get hold of the profits from the video sales. Add a scatterbrained secretary, a lovelorn traffic cop and a cunning street child and you have a roll-in-the aisles comedy with a distinctly South African flavour.
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Orkney Snork Nie 2
Title: Orkney Snork Nie 2
Character: Spike
Released: January 1, 1993
Type: Movie
The second movie based on a South African sitcom by the same name.They celebrate their new found richness in style but soon lose more than they had won. Scam artists rob and deceive them.The mine fires them and their wives won't allow them to come home. They numerous trials and tribulations to get everything back to the way it was.
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Orkney Snork Nie (Die Movie)
Title: Orkney Snork Nie (Die Movie)
Character: Spike
Released: April 16, 1992
Type: Movie
We go on vacation to Margate with the van Tonder Family. Hendrik wants to go fishing, the kids swim and play Yollie and Maggie wants to sunbathe and Ouboet has a self built modded speedboat (Spuitpoep II) which he wants to test out at sea. Their dream vacation gets sabotaged by a Joburg company, who wants to buy the caravan park where they are vacationing to demolish it and build a shopping mall. But then they get to deal with the van Tonders who doesn't let anyone mess with them. Hillarious from beginning to end.
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Taxi to Soweto
Title: Taxi to Soweto
Character: Arno Theron
Released: October 31, 1991
Type: Movie
A Gentle story with a moral of forgive and forget at the kernel of its’ comedy exterior ~ but also one that accurately foretold the changes that were to sweep across South Africa in 1994, as an uptight suburban Johannesburg housewife (Elize Cawood, with an equally uptight husband played by Marius Weyers) accepts a lift from a Sowetan taxi driver (Patrick Shai) and gets taken into another world entirely
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The Gods Must Be Crazy II
Title: The Gods Must Be Crazy II
Character: George
Released: July 1, 1989
Type: Movie
Xixo is back again. This time, his children accidentally stow away on a fast-moving poachers' truck, unable to get off, and Xixo sets out to rescue them. Along the way, he encounters a couple of soldiers trying to capture each other and a pilot and passenger of a small plane, who are each having a few problems of their own.
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Title: Orkney Snork Nie
Character: Spike
Released: May 10, 1989
Type: TV
Orkney Snork Nie, a popular Afrikaans sitcom, originally broadcast by the SABC in South Africa. The name translates directly into Orkney Doesn't Snore, but the message being conveyed in Afrikaans is that the town isn't sleepy, there's always something happening.
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Title: Onder Draai Die Duiwel Rond
Character: Dolf Massyn
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: TV
Onder Draai die Duiwel Rond is a South African television drama series created and written by Chris Barnard and produced by Sonneblom Films about beautiful people, good wine and respectable neighbours living on the banks of the Hartebeespoort Dam with lives that are seemingly idyllically peaceful and romantic, but which harbour deep secrets just beneath the surface of the facade.