His Big White Self
Feb 2006
Nick Broomfield's sequel to The Leader..., about the South African white supremacist Eugene Terreblanche.
You can buy His Big White Self on DVD in a 2 Disc Special Edition (along with The Leader...).
Visit www.play.com to buy the DVD.
About His Big White Self
For more than 20 years Nick Broomfield has been getting into trouble with his documentary subjects - and making scintillating films in the process. The scourge of Maggie Thatcher, Courtney Love and Suge Knight (whom Broomfield alleged killed the rapper Tupac Shakur) has become a hero to a generation of filmmakers, including Michael Moore, Louis Theroux, Jon Ronson, Morgan Spurlock and Martin Bashir.
This tremendous success has had its drawbacks too. One of Broomfield's most effective films The Leader, The Driver And The Driver's Wife made during the final days of Apartheid in 1991 so outraged the South African white supremacist Eugene Terreblanche and his followers that Broomfield received death threats and was told that a bomb would be planted in his flat.
"I never thought in my worst nightmares that 14 years later I'd feel compelled to track down His Big White Self." But of course, he did, and this new film about the old devil is yet another unmissable piece of filmmaking.
