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Jannie totsiens is a 1970 South African psychological horror film directed by Jans Rautenbach and starring Cobus Rossouw, Katinka Heyns, Jill Kirkland and Don Leonard. [1] A new arrival to a mental institute is ostracised by the other patients, until they use him as a scapegoat when another patient dies. It has been viewed as representing an allegory of South African society at the time. [2]

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  1. "Jannie Totsiens (1970)". BFI. Archived from the original on 2009-05-22. Retrieved 2018-09-17.
  2. Tomaselli p.121

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