Final Solution Articles

A Filmmaker's Faith
First, Cristobal Krusen was born in Tampa. Then he was a born-again Christian. Now he's a born-again filmmaker.

The message behind Krusen's film Final Solution echoes Jesus' Sermon on the Mount, which satisfied Krusen's quest for faith 22 years ago: Love your enemies; be a peacemaker. But Final Solution isn't the kind of reel religion that distances itself from secular audiences with sermons on the screen. more...

Indie Flix: Raw Racism and Redemption
South Africa's apartheid era is the backdrop for a story of redemption, as an Afrikaner racist named Gerrit Wolfhaardt sees the error of his ways, with some spiritual assistance.

The story, for the most part, is true. The religious importance has been downplayed to better appeal to secular audiences. more...

Filmmaker's Goal: A 'Solution' For Racism
An ordinary man would have given up. But Cris Krusen is no ordinary man. The 51-year-old Tampa native spent 10 years and about $1 million in donations and loans to finance a long-held dream.

You can be part of that dream when "Final Solution'', an award-winning movie written and directed by Krusen, opens Friday at Channelside Cinemas in downtown Tampa. more...

Racist Theories Dissolve In 'Solution'
He calls his company Messenger Films, but writer- director Cris Krusen is more of a storyteller than a preacher.

Sure, there's a heartfelt plea for forgiveness and hope here. But there's an edge - a real-world sense of rage, danger and reconciliation - behind this humanitarian drama to which the Tampa native devoted a decade of work. more...

Marco Island Eagle
Film festival directors break tradition, name 3 winners early
Promising films that will illuminate, inspire and entertain, Marco Island Film Festival officials gave a sneak preview and announced three jury awards at a media launch on Oct. 2. more...

Christian Spotlight
Movie Review
Final Solution by Cristóbal Krusen is about the true story of Gerrit Wolfaardt, a reformed white supremacist who had proposed mass genocide as a solution to South Africa's racial woes. more...

ASSIST News Service
A.C. GREEN’S “FINAL SOLUTION”
A.C. Green, who currently owns the NBA Iron Man title, having played in 1,192 straight games and has won a world championship ring with the Los Angeles Lakers in the 1999-2000 season, now has a new passion in his life. He wants to bring racial reconciliation through the world. more...

Regent University
Regent film professor releases “Final Solution”
Krusen’s third film explores race reconciliation
Cris Krusen, adjunct professor of film at Regent University, has crafted a powerful story of reconciliation in his first feature-length film, “Final Solution,” which airs on PBS this spring. more...

Jeffrey Overstreet
A Review
Final Solution weaves several stories together against the backdrop of the last days of apartheid in South Africa. And they are true. Gerrit Wolfaardt was indeed a white supremacist who threw fuel on the fire of violence and hatred until the efforts of some compassionate and cautious heroes led him to a change of heart and mind. more...

BC Alive.ca
Coming Soon! Video- FINAL SOLUTION
This video is already winning awards at film festivals (recently in Australia) and its soundtrack has also won an award. more...

CBA Review
Select June Reviews
Already aired on some PBS outlets, Final Solution offers recent history with nuanced acting, realistic screenwriting, and a scriptural angle. It tells the true story of a white South African, Gerrit Wolfaardt (Jan Ellis), committed to ridding his country of its native black population during the apartheid government’s reign. more...

FilmTracks
Filmtracks Editorial Review
With high praise from both within the international Christian community and from mainstream critics, the apartheid film Final Solution is a tale of personal transformation, redemption, and confrontation of past crimes. more...

Film Music on the Web
June 2003 Film Music CD Reviews
Final Solution is not, as I first supposed, and I imagine so will almost everyone else, a Holocaust drama, but a true life story set in the later years of South Africa’s apartheid regime. more...

Sunday Magazine
At last! A movie that credits Christian effectiveness in breaking down apartheid
What's in a name? "The fairest Cape in all the world" is the way English explorer Sir Francis Drake, described the land beneath Table Mountain in South Africa. more...

CBA Marketplace
A Racist's Redemption
Already aired on some PBS oulets, Final Solution offers recent history with naunced acting, realistic screenwriting, and a scriptural angle. more...

Image Update
Final Solution
The final years of South Africa's apartheid system were overshadowed by an atmosphere of escalating violence and cyclical bloodshed. more...

Beacon, May 2003
Film offers Final Solution
In a time when bitterness and warring have taken center stage more...

Christian Retailing
Spotlight:
Cristobal Krusen more...

Christian Week, April 2003
And the Truth Shall Set You Free
Four out of Four Stars more...

Colorado Springs Gazette, March 2003
Minister turned from Evil
To say he is far removed from the hatred of his youth is an understatement. more...

Visual Parables, March 2003
Movie Review
A powerful story of a white Afrikaner... more...

The Indianapolis Star
Apartheid Film Nets Award
A.C. Green, who's picking up a Heartland Film Festival award... more...

Charlotte Observer
Cinematic Trail Leads to South Africa
How did a kid from Matthews land in South Africa, producing a movie about reconciliation set on the eve of Nelson Mandela's 1994 election? more...

Daily Press
Better Solution
He made the film for South Africa, but now Cris Krusen is ready to show it to America. more...

The Wave
The Power of Reconciliation
We met at the airport in Little Rock, Arkansas, our destination was the annual winter conference of the Anglican mission in America. more...

Bismarck Tribune
Film subject a servant leadership model
Richard Hinds, a freshman at the University of Mary, saw a movie Wednesday night about a former racist -- Gerrit Wolfaardt -- who in the late 1960s directed his hatred toward blacks in South Africa. more...

Cape Argus
Langa film recalls dark racist days for white ‘freedom fighter’
A movie set in Langa brought a former racist face to face this week with his younger self, portrayed by seasoned actor Jan Ellis in the US-funded film The Final Solution. more...

Cape Argus
Pro-SA Americans Fund local movie
Kani’s the ticket to film’s international clout
A South African story told with American funding is being shot in locations around Cape Town. more...