Plot Summary

Nick Broomfield's comic masterpiece chronicles the death throes of the fascist AWB party in Apartheid South Africa through its leader Eugene Terreblanche, his driver JP and JP's wife, Anita. Acutely aware of the all-too-seductive nature of fascism and the media's historical complicity in that seduction, Broomfield has produced an anti-Triumph of the Will, deliberately lampooning a movement whose power rests in grave self-importance as much as violent intimidation. Instead of fearless footsoldiers, the brown-shirted AWB members look like overgrown boy scouts with their short-sleeves and moustaches. In the pre-credits sequence, we see them marching in uniform in front of their neo-Nazi flag. But there's no music and the hall is empty - a dress rehearsal, presumably, but the (accurate) impression is of a fringe group with no popular support.