title: Boetie Gaan Border Toe
text: # Boetie Gaan Border Toe
  
  Boetie Gaan Border Toe is a 1984 satire film set during the South African Border War. The film was directed by Regardt van den Bergh, and stars Arnold Vosloo, Frank Dankert and Frank Opperman. Production was assisted by the South African Defence Force (SADF).
  
  ## Plot
  
  Boetie van Tonder, a young Afrikaner, faces conscription into the South African military. Although initially determined to resist national service and defy instruction, he quickly finds comfort in the company of his fellow conscripts as they weather the harshness of basic training and their subsequent deployment to the Angolan border.
  
  ## Cast
  
  * Arnold Vosloo as Boetie van Tonder
  * Eric Nobbs [af] as Korporaal Botes
  * Frank Dankert as Dampies Ball
  * Kelsey Middleton as Jenny Ball
  * Janie du Plessis [af] as Elize
  * Kerneels Coertzen as Davel
  * Pagel Kruger as Mnr. Moerdijk
  * William Abdul as James
  * Frank Opperman as De Kock
  * Blake Toerien as Piet Slabbert
  * Christo Loots as Sunshine
  * Neels Engelbrecht as Gattie
  * Rudi De Jager as Meyer
  * Bobbette Fouche as Mev. Moerdijk
  * Graham Clarke as Dokter
  * Gys de Villiers as Korporaal Smit
  * Jacques Loots [af] as Politikus
  * Jana Cilliers as Lecturer (dosent)
  * Gretha Brazelle as Charmaine
  
  ## Reception
  
  Literary analyst Monica Popescu described Boetie Gaan Border Toe and its sequel, Boetie Op Manoeuvres, as works which essentially romanticised the South African Border War and devoted a disproportionate amount of emphasis to the "chivalrous conduct of SADF soldiers". Keyan Tomaselli of the University of Johannesburg criticised the film as "propagandistic".
  
  Boetie Gaan Border Toe was a financial success, breaking South African box office records.
  
  