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26.02.2024 - 09:15 / variety.com
Christopher Vourlias “The Man With the Crooked Arm,” a Western drama series created by Perivi Katjavivi that was presented at the Berlinale Co-Production Market, is the latest attempt by the Namibian filmmaker to wrestle with the legacy of German colonialism in his southern African nation. The eight-episode limited series follows a notorious Black cowboy who sets off on horseback across colonial-era Africa with stolen loot and an orphaned boy.
When a robbery goes awry, he has to decide whether he’ll protect the young orphan — whose father he just killed — or pursue his nemesis, a corrupt German missionary. The series is based on the real-life Jonker Afrikaner, “a notorious figure, a bit of a badass — essentially, a cowboy and bandit who, along with his father, came into Namibia in the 1800s and caused chaos and transformed the place with the Bible and guns,” says Katjavivi, whose sophomore feature, “Under the Hanging Tree,” plays this week at the Joburg Film Festival.
The show pits Afrikaner against a missionary “who is trying to impose his vision of what Namibia should be in the image of a German-esque kind of civilization,” says the director, adding that the series — inspired by shows like “Deadwood” and “Boardwalk Empire” — will “reimagine [the Western genre] in the Namibian context.” Katjavivi began developing “Crooked Arm” as a spin-off to “Hanging Tree,” a noirish drama about a hard-edged female detective whose investigation into a mysterious murder finds her delving into the country’s colonial past. The two projects both wrestle with “real-life historical events and stories, particularly related to the colonial period in Namibia,” says Katjavivi, adding that he wants to “reimagine [those events] in fresh and fun
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