Season 1 • Episode 13
LatestDryfsand (Quicksand) is a South African, Afrikaans-language television drama series written by P.G. du Plessis and produced by Andre Scholtz which revolves around a load of gold that was stolen from a small mining town. An airplane disappears without trace while ferrying a cargo of gold bullion from a small mining town. Carstens, the protagonist of Dryfsand, loses his job at the mine because of the incident, which is deemed a heist.
Writing
P.G. du Plessis crafts suffocating small-town dread.
Acting
Frank Opperman simmers with quiet menace.
Production
Mining-town desolation becomes a character.
Creator
P.G. du Plessis
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
One of the rare Afrikaans dramas to escape the soap-opera ghetto and embrace full noir pessimism.
P.G. du Plessis adapted his own novel; the series outperformed the book in cult status among younger South Africans who discovered it through obscure streaming rips.
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