A police procedural that transcends into a deeper exploration of a country’s fractured psyche, stirring unspoken conflicts that draw on real life testimonies of the SAPC Occult Unit operating in the death throes of Apartheid, ACTS OF MAN is a psychological crime-drama come supernatural thriller; an original and forward- thinking drama series format for South Africa, deeply authentic and true to its context and examination of real history, beliefs and social dynamics, but at the same time a universal story told on multiple levels, from the gripping, chilling investigation that drives the plot, to its complex conflicted characters, in line with the most loved and hated in international drama, to its haunting visceral setting, its examinations of raw humanity across belief systems and in its unflinching look at the dangers of rigid belief, either for the better or worse.

 

Drawing stylistic and narrative inspiration from the Nordic noir genre, from series like The Killing, True Detective, The Fall, Top of the Lake and from films like The Pledge, Seven and Insomnia, and from seminal works such as Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart and Arthur Miller’s The Crucible, the series appeals to local and international audience with a taste for complex psychological and supernatural drama, and offers them that and more, as it builds into a thrill-ride ending at the end of a contained story arc that serves in a sense as an origin story and will launch multiple potential seasons as our lead characters are awakened to a new view on the world and its deep, dark spaces. This is an audience that has proven itself, and with a growing appetite for original, riveting high-brow content from South Africa within the country and abroad, ACTS OF MAN offers that and more.

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