Ellen: The Ellen Pakkies Story (2018)

Directors

Daryne Joshua

The story

The movie is based on the highly publicized 2007 case of Ellen Pakkies, a deeply religious and upstanding resident of Lavender Hill in Cape Town. For seven years, Ellen endured severe physical, emotional, and financial abuse from her 20-year-old son, Abie, who was severely addicted to methamphetamine (tik). After exhaustively seeking help from the police and social services to no avail, a desperate and exhausted Ellen made the tragic choice to strangle Abie to death with a rope.

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