I just caught this 2014 Danish/UK western on TV, although I missed the beginning, which apparently depicts the 1864 Schleswig-Holstein war. Anyway, when I tuned in the railroad station scene was playing, and the language and accents said Nordic – and not being aware of the British connection I immediately thought 'ah… bound to be filmed in southern Spain then, but… shortly thereafter the camera panned across the arid prairies of… South Africa (those slab-sided plateaux are a dead giveaway)! As the movie played out the incongruous landscape had me half-expecting a Zulu impi to suddenly come charging over the horizon, and wondering how the protagonists would react. Would they:
A. Feint from the shock of the totally unexpected?
B. Run screaming from the same cause?
C. Forget their differences and combine forces against the new threat?
The location made sense in light of the British involvement. A number of recent UK TV series have been filmed in SA, including just about all those with a military theme set anywhere arid.
A western filmed on another continent in a place with a parallel frontier history also recalls comments on another thread on these boards about the potential interchangeability of figures representing colonial era white men in wide-brimmed hats.
is back from Council of Five Nations.
