Boetie Gaan Border Toe is a 1984 satire film set during the South African Border War. The film was directed by Regardt van den Bergh, and stars Arnold Vosloo, Frank Dankert and Frank Opperman. Production was assisted by the South African Defence Force (SADF).

80's South African action-comedy shot mostly in Afrikaans, one of South Africa's 11 indigenous languages. The main character, played by Arnold Vosloo, is a spoilt young man from a rich family, just finished school, and conscripted to two years of army service, as most defensible young men were forced to do in the '80s. The movie revolves around the young rebel's anti-establishment antics in frustrating his superiors, trying to avoid military service with his new-found comrades-at-arms, and charming an inquisitive spiky-haired reporter, played by Janie du Plessis.

Plot:
Boetie van Tonder, a young Afrikaner, faces conscription into the South African military. Although initially determined to resist national service and defy instruction, he quickly finds comfort in the company of his fellow conscripts as they weather the harshness of basic training and their subsequent deployment to the Angolan border.

Cast:
Arnold Vosloo as Boetie van Tonder
Eric Nobbs [af] as Korporaal Botes
Frank Dankert as Dampies Ball
Kelsey Middleton as Jenny Ball
Janie du Plessis [af] as Elize
Kerneels Coertzen as Davel
Pagel Kruger as Mnr. Moerdijk
William Abdul as James
Frank Opperman as De Kock
Blake Toerien as Piet Slabbert
Christo Loots as Sunshine
Neels Engelbrecht as Gattie
Rudi De Jager as Meyer
Bobbette Fouche as Mev. Moerdijk
Graham Clarke as Dokter
Gys de Villiers [af] as Korporaal Smit
Jacques Loots [af] as Politikus
Jana Cilliers as Lecturer (dosent)
Gretha Brazelle as Charmaine

Reception:
Literary analyst Monica Popescu described Boetie Gaan Border Toe and its sequel, Boetie Op Manoeuvres, as works which essentially romanticised the South African Border War and devoted a disproportionate amount of emphasis to the "chivalrous conduct of SADF soldiers". Keyan Tomaselli of the University of Johannesburg criticised the film as "propagandistic".

Boetie Gaan Border Toe was a financial success, breaking South African box office records

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