Vaselinetjie

2017
1h 38m

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Vaselinetjie, a white girl, is raised by her loving brown grandparents in a remote rural village. When the welfare finds out that she is not their biological grandchild, they send her to an ... Read allVaselinetjie, a white girl, is raised by her loving brown grandparents in a remote rural village. When the welfare finds out that she is not their biological grandchild, they send her to an orphanage in the faraway city of Johannesburg.Vaselinetjie, a white girl, is raised by her loving brown grandparents in a remote rural village. When the welfare finds out that she is not their biological grandchild, they send her to an orphanage in the faraway city of Johannesburg.

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7.3/10

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Awards
- 2 wins & 4 nominations total

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2christof-943-546377

Pointless Movie

The acting is good, but there is no point to the story. The story line is very weak. It does nothing for race relations in South Africa.

There is no clear message in the film. Character growth very slow. It only gets rushed off at the end.

No hope, no nothing. Don't waste 2 hours and money for tickets.

1scholtzwaldo

Pointless

The movie starts and basically ends at the same place, there really is no point in watching it aside from the fact of getting a look into a early childs life in a childrens home, the worst part is wasting the time to watch something that has no meaning or benifit to your life by any means, it ended so abruptly that made me feel frustrated that i wasted the time to watch it.

2kevroelfze

Dissapointed

This movie is about a white girl who was raised by coloured parents but ......she speaks like a normal white south african ..... i think the actress and director hit a big fat miss it just ruined the rest of the movie to which there was no point. I always ask myself what can be learned from a movie. Its quite hard when the essence is missing

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The film is based on the acclaimed novel, "Vaselinetjie" and its English title "My Name is Vaselinetjie". It has won the Rapport/ Jan Rabie Award, Mnet award and ATKV Award.