2012 • 16' • French
Director(s): Yannick Charles • Producer(s): Grand Angle Productions • Coproducer(s): France Télévisions • Format(s): HD
Lying nearly 10,000 kilometres from Amsterdam, Paris or London, Cape Town is without doubt the whitest and most European city in Africa. An enclave in the heart of the black continent. Just as it was in the sixteenth century when Dutch pioneers or French Huguenots were touched by the grace of the location and never left it. They created a jewel out of this extreme point of Africa, transplanting their architecture, their interiors, their customs, their spirit of enterprise.
Three centuries later, with Apartheid abolished, the descendants of those Cape pioneers, whether of Dutch or British origin, perpetuate a way of life at the very end of the African continent that is quite apart. Nowhere else in Africa do they hunt to hounds or play cricket with such passion. Nowhere else in Africa do they produce so many cheeses and wines, on estates that are still called “La Provence” or “Le Bonheur”.
