Stander Page #4

Synopsis: In the early 1980's, a white police officer (Andres Stander, played by Thomas Jane) in Johannesburg suffers a crisis of conscience due to his involvement in apartheid and becomes a notorious bank robber on the run. Then from 1983 to 1984, the "Stander gang" (Stander, Alan Heyl & Patrick McCall) rob as many as four banks a day.
Director(s): Bronwen Hughes
Production: Newmarket Films
  3 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.2
Metacritic:
62
Rotten Tomatoes:
73%
R
Year:
2003
111 min
Website
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Captain Stander...

before I consider judgment?

I'm tried for robbing banks

But I have killed unarmed people

That is not the business

of this court

Do you have anything more to say?

No

"The court only

attaches importance...

"to the accused's reckless

endangerment of innocent people...

"that he had sworn

to his country to protect

"No account is taken ofhis prior

record and commendations.

The court sentences former Captain

Andre Stander to 32 years imprisonment"

Dirty f***ing Harry

He won't last long

Really? Who's got the balls?

You, Lee?

Hey! That psycho kidnapper

will be out before you.

How does that make you feel, supercop?

Lee McCall.

I used to hit banks...

back home in Australia

You're not Australian, you bastard.

Sing the national anthem, then

Wallaby and Kangaroo

Will ever runnin'

be free and... true...

- I'm f***in'no Australian...

- Lee McCall

You've been inside

11 of the last 12 years

Bad checks, stolen cars, credit cards

Small-time habitual.

Hit the bank?

You've never even had an account

Why, it sounds like you know me

Your file crossed my desk once

"The car must stay full of petrol

"Ask my father to please empty my treasure

chest and put the money in the boot

"Shift the seat back please, Bekk,

I may be handcuffed.

"I feel like the lowest of the low

for asking you these things

Or are you enjoying

the adventure?"

- How did he get it past them?

- Oh, he didn't

A friend of mine slipped it to me

before the press got hold of it

He's a flight risk now.

One letter a month, no visitation rights.

- Would you have helped him?

- Of course

If he had been caught,

the appeal would have been denied

Bekkie, I may be selfish, but that is the only

hope I have of seeing him out before I die

Please.

Don't encourage him.

Oh, Bekkie

There are parts of Andre

I'm afraid we'll never know

You didn't marry him twice

My friend, Cor.

After two years in here,

I am an honest man.

I no longer worry

that I'm living a lie.

I have more respect for the sorted

criminals I find myself amongst...

than I did for the cops

I used to know.

Thugs, bullies, cut-up buggers...

smoking stolen cigars

at my very own wedding.

Robbed goods paid out in the name

of so-called protection.

I'd rather rob a bank than accept

a gift that was given out of fear.

Oh, not for me

I've got a half shoulder

- Parachuting accident

- Right

How do you spell parachute? Eh?

I don't know

Hey, asslicker!

Brownnoser!

I'm on to you

- I want to take a trade test

- Who gives a sh*t?

On the 31 st

Outside these walls

Outside. Really?

You're soft

I think you've lost your nerve

I don't need to prove myself to you

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