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''The Leader, His Driver and the Driver's Wife'' is a 1991 British feature-length documentary film set during the final days of the apartheid regime in South Africa, particularly centring on Eugène Terre'Blanche, founder and leader of the far-right Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging. The film was directed by Nick Broomfield and released in 1991. It received an average of 2.3 million viewers during its screening on Channel 4.〔Victim dragged into TV film 'for sex angle', The Guardian. 4 August 1992. p.2〕 A year later it was the subject of legal action brought by the journalist, Jani Allan, in what has been described as "the libel case of the summer".〔(Opinion ) The Independent. 13 August 1992〕 In 2006, Broomfield released a follow-up, ''His Big White Self''. == Background == Throughout the film, Broomfield attempts to set up an interview with Terre'Blanche, who stubbornly breaks all of the plans he makes with him. For the majority of the film where Broomfield is unable to get an interview with the Leader himself, his attention is drawn to the driver and his wife (JP and Anita Meyer), hence the title (which alludes to the title of Peter Greenaway's 1989 film ''The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover''). Broomfield also spent time with a Town Councillor and diamond mine owner named Johann and his friend Anton. Broomfield had planned to interview Boervolk leader Piet Rudolph but when on the outskirts of Pretoria a news broadcast informed them that he'd been arrested, Rudolph was a fugitive wanted in connection with the theft of some arms from an SA Defence Force base located in Pretoria. After his arrest in Pretoria, Mr Rudolph was dubbed as the 'South African Bobby Sands' in reference to his proclamation that he would go on a hunger strike to promote his (and the AWB's) cause for a white homeland. The film also makes light of the ongoing saga of trying to get an interview with the leader, something which Broomfield eventually manages to do although he's only able to ask one question after Terre'Blanche takes particular offence when Broomfield and his crew turn up 5 minutes late for the interview. The film ends with Broomfield and his crew at an AWB rally where a crowd of five thousand were expected but in reality not even half that number are present. The credits roll soon after Terre'Blanche again breaks into fits of rage, citing supposed security violations committed by Broomfield's camera crew. The documentary was released in the UK as a DVD boxset, together with ''His Big White Self'', in April 2006. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Leader, His Driver and the Driver's Wife」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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