
Most South Africans, even those who studied history at school, have never heard of the enigmatic Boer who fought, spied and sabotaged his way through three cataclysmic wars.
Many South Africans of a certain demographic will be intimately familiar with the main themes in Israeli director, Ari Folman’s animated documentary. Based on his personal experiences as a young soldier during the 1982 Israeli invasion of Lebanon, the narrative follows a middle aged Folman as he interviews his fellow veterans and tries to reconstruct his memories of the conflict.