TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lewis,Jack
AU  - Greyson,John,1960-
AU  - Brown,Rouxnet
AU  - Smyth,Shaun
AU  - Sandilands,Neil
AU  - Thomson,Kristen
TI  - Proteus
AV  - DVD 
PY  - 2004///
CY  - San Francisco, CA
PB  - Strand Releasing Home Video
KW  - Feature films
KW  - Foreign films - South Africa
KW  - Motion pictures, South Africa
N1  - Not rated; Special features: Radio interview with Jack Lewis and John Greyson with Celluloid Dreams host, Tim Sika ; original theatrical trailer; In English, Afrikaans and Dutch with English subtitles
N2  - A fact-based interracial gay love story of two men incarcerated in the infamous South African Robin Island prison in the 18th century. Claas Blank, a Koi herder was unjustly imprisoned for stealing cattle. Rijkhaart Jacobsz, a withdrawn Dutch sailor, was imprisoned for the crime of homosexuality. The two were placed on trial for sodomy and the film is based partly on court transcipts from the time
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