Ongewenste Vreemdeling (1974)

Ongewenste Vreemdeling (Unwelcome Stranger) was the film adaptation of a radio serial from the early 1970s.
However, Rautenbach transformed it, incorporating many of the themes from his earlier avant-garde "Jannie Totsiens" - a stranger entering a closed community, an unrequited love triangle, the juxtaposition of sex and death and the theme of running from something inside yourself.
The result is a film of great lyrical beauty, shot in elegant long takes. It contains one of the most famous film sequences in Afrikaans: the dance/suicide scene set to the "Song of the unwelcome stranger"
take her far away... from her mother
take her far away... from her father
take her far away... from her country
Marie Tjaden Tromp as Matilda
Marié du Toit as Eleen
Sandra Kotzé as Lida
Barry Trengove as Bergsma
Dulcie van den Bergh as Tannie Ralie
Marius Weyers as Gerhard Steenberg
Sann de Lange
Anele Jonker as Mitz