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Zephany Nurse doccie hits the big screen

GENEVIEVE SERRA genevieve.serra@inl.co.za

“WE WILL show our true emotions to the world for the first time.”

This is what Morne Nurse said about the documentary, Girl Taken, which premieres today at the Labia Theatre in Orange Street in Cape Town at 5.30pm.

For the first time, the Nurse family, including the kidnapper’s family, will watch their six-year filming journey in its complete form. In an exclusive interview with Independent Media, Nurse and his daughter Miché Solomon, better known as Zephany Nurse, shared his emotions on the eve of the release of the 92-minute film.

The film follows the journey of Morne and Celeste, their heartache, joy and pain from the day their three-day old baby, Zephany, was snatched by Lavona Solomon, a seamstress from Seawinds in Lavender Hill at Groote Schuur Hospital in April 1997, to 17 years later when they found their daughter.

Their youngest daughter, Cassidy, attended the same school as Miché and the two girls resembled one another.

DNA tests later revealed Miché was in fact the Nurse’s long-lost daughter.

After the kidnapping, the couple went on to have three more children.

The movie, according to Nurse, is the “behind-the-scenes and camera lens” after being in the media spotlight since February 2015.

It is the raw emotions shared by the couple, their marriage shattered by the huge loss and the reconciliation and new marriage – and dealing with secondary loss after meeting their daughter, who was a total stranger, and learning to gain her love and trust.

The movie was produced by Soilsiú Films, Undercurrent Film & Television, Saltpeter Production and the directors are Francois Verster and Simon Wood. It will soon be screened in Johannesburg.

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