Moffie
(2020)
★ 6.7 IMDb · 100 votes
Year: 2020
Runtime: 104 мин
Country: South Africa, United Kingdom
Director: Oliver Hermanus
Cast: Kai Luke Brummer, Ryan de Villiers, Matthew Vey, Hilton Pelser, Wynand Ferreira, Jan Combrink, Stefan Vermaak, Hendrik Nieuwoudt, Shaun Chad Smit, Rikus Terblanche
Plot
A young man in 1981 South Africa must complete his brutal and racist two years of compulsory military service while desperately maintaining the secrecy of his homosexuality.
Nicholas has long known he is different, that something shameful and unacceptable in him must stay hidden and denied. But South Africa's minority government are embroiled in conflict at the Angolan border and all white young men over 16 must serve two years of compulsory military service to defend the Apartheid regime and its culture of toxic racist machismo. The 'black danger' is the real and present threat; what is wrong with Nicholas and others like him can be rooted out, treated, and cured like cancer. But just when fear pushes Nicholas to accept unspeakable horrors in the hopes of staying invisible, a tender relationship with another recruit becomes as dangerous for them both as any enemy fire.