The Story of Klara Viljee
1992, English. Directed by Katinka Heyns.
This affirming story of one woman's struggle to free herself from the past, and how that affects the small fishing village where she lives, shows that faith can move mountains, or unmake them. When the seamstress Klara loses her father and her fiance at sea, she decides she never wants to see the ocean again. She builds her house behind a huge sand dune, and even refuses to eat fish. Several years later, however, she receives news that makes her start carting away the dune, bucket load by bucket load. It turns out her boyfriend is alive, and that hes been living in Cape Town for the past six years. He ran off because he made a local girl pregnant a pregnancy attributed to the local schoolmaster. As the villagers watch Klara move the dune, they begin examining their own lives, and the entire community undergoes a wondrous rejuvenation.
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- 1h 53m
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- English
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- Released
- 31 January 1992
- Original title
- Die Storie van Klara Viljee
- Country
- South Africa
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The Story of Klara Viljee runs 113 minutes (1h 53m).
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The Story of Klara Viljee isn’t streaming on any OTT platform in India yet; it released on 31 January 1992. (Checked 14 November 2026.)
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Who directed The Story of Klara Viljee?
The Story of Klara Viljee (1992) was directed by Katinka Heyns and stars Michelle Scott, Anna-Mart van der Merwe, Regardt van den Bergh.