Katrina

Katrina is a 1969 South African drama film directed by Jans Rautenbach and starring Katinka Heyns, Jill Kirkland and Don Leonard. Based on a play called Try for White by D Warner, the film depicts the lives of a family of a Coloured South Africans, who in the apartheid system are considered neither white nor black, in which Katrina, the daughter, attempts to appear white, before her secret is exposed. The screenplay was written by Emil Nofal. Plot Katrina September, a coloured woman, in South Africa decides to leave her family, taking her son Paul away with her, to live as white-passing in order to live a better life during apartheid. Katrina goes by the name Catherine Winters in her secret life. However, their lives get messy when both herself and Paul meet their love interests. Paul does not know he is coloured which causes problems when he starts dating Alida Brink, a white girl. Alex Trewellyn, a white Anglican priest, starts to fall in love with Katrina and her secrets start to unravel. When Katrina's mother dies, she is forced to return home to her family, where her brother, Adam September, is upset with Katrina. Adam wishes for Paul, who has just returned from England with a medical degree, to work in their village. Cast Katinka Heyns as Alida Brink Jill Kirkland as Catherine Winters / Katrina September Don Leonard as Kimberley Jacobs Cobus Rossouw as Adam September Joe Stewardson as Father Alex Trewellyn Carel Trichardt as Mr. Brink Reghardt van den Bergh as Alida's brother Ian Strauss as [unknown name] Simon Sabela as [unknown name] Anthony Handley as [unknown name]