One of the best films of what I like to call "the golden age of SA cinema": this golden age didn't last long, only about a decade plus some change from about 1963 to about 1975 but it produced some amazing films.
Boring synopsis by yours truly
A beautifully filmed melodrama concerning the generation gap clash at its’ worst as a stern, forbidding, grieving fisherman father and his bookish son clash and collide time and again. The son eventually proves his worth to his father only to have his worst fears realized when his terminally ill girlfriend succumbs to leukemia, but this tragedy forces him finally into manhood. Beautiful cinematography by Vincent G. Cox, A.S.C, haunting music by Roy Martin and acting from the cream of South African entertainment all add up to a very memorable viewing experience. This is also known to be the film which gave Emil Nofal’s partner Jans Rautenbach his first chance at directing a film, due to Nofal’s terrible sea-sickness. It is however, a pity that Antony Thomas chose to blast this film in an interview done for the post democracy anti-apartheid cinema diatribe In Darkest Hollywood which I was unfortunate enough to have worked on. In the interview, Antony Thomas states that this film opened his eyes to the horrors of apartheid and that it let him see the light. Strange really, as this film has nothing whatever to do with apartheid at all. It would have been far better for Mr. Thomas to admit that he had made pro-apartheid documentaries for the then State Information Department (including the now notorious Anatomy of Apartheid) and that those and not Wild Season contributed to his leaving South Africa and becoming a prohibited immigrant. With Gert van den Bergh, Marie du Toit, Antony Thomas, Ian Yule, Joe Stewardson, Johan Du Plooy and Janis Reinhardt.
The film is here (I think this is one of the two different release versions)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQK_jmWObd8Enjoy