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Een Keer Om Die Son

2024 · 2 seasons

A slow, heartfelt family drama that sits with grief and forgiveness, offering quiet warmth and honest tears over a year of healing.

Created by
DonnaLee Roberts, Ivan Botha
Genres
Drama
Starring
Jacques Bessenger, DonnaLee Roberts, Jana Kruger
Overview
Over the course of a year, the Van Wyk's mourn the loss of a loved one and struggle with divorce, illness, forgiveness, high school and secrets as they heal and find each other again.

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Created by
DonnaLee Roberts, Ivan Botha
Genres
Drama
Starring
Jacques Bessenger, DonnaLee Roberts, Jana Kruger
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How it feels

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Tone
  • melancholicstrength 3 of 3
  • warmstrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
  • tensestrength 1 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • grief
  • family
  • healing
  • parenthood
  • identity
Places
  • small town
  • home
  • school
Era
contemporary
Audience
teen
Form
  • ensemble
  • serialised
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence none
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror0
Humour3
Realism8
Romance3
Tension4
Darkness5
Complexity5
Emotional weight8

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Details

Genres
drama
Created by
DonnaLee Roberts, Ivan Botha
Written by
Retief Scholtz, Ivan Botha, Liani Jansen van Rensburg, DonnaLee Roberts
Starring
Jacques Bessenger, DonnaLee Roberts, Jana Kruger, Joanie Combrink, Albert Maritz, Liam Bosman, Ludwig Binge, Alma van Heerden
Length
2 seasons, 24 episodes
Network
kykNET
Country
South Africa
Languages
Afrikaans

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