Faith Like Potatoes

3/20/2018

Mundane South African biography about a struggling farmer who turns to God. RELEASED IN 2006 and directed by Regardt van den Bergh, "Faith like Potatoes" is a drama based on the life of Angus Buchan in the late 70s who moved his family from the political unrest of Zambia to eastern South Africa to start a maize farm. Buchan (Frank Rautenbach) and his family/employees (Jeanne Neilson and Hamilton Dlamini) face many challenges in their new home as Angus eventually feels led by faith to grow potatoes despite a severe drought. The documentary-like tone is similar to other African autobiographies like “I Dreamed of Africa” (2000) and “Nowhere in Africa” (2001), except with the added faith element. I’ve never heard of Buchan, but he went on to become a fairly significant South African ev

6/21/2026

Faith Like Potatoes (2006) is two hours of cognitive dissonance. The plot follows Angus Buchan (Frank Rautenbach) a Scotsman who fancies himself a “white African.” Looks like we’ve got ourselves a reverse Idi Amin. You know who also is from Africa? Storm from the X-Men. I always thought she was more a god than a mutant. I don’t know what the extent of her powers is, but if she can control all weather, she would arguably be mightier than God — at least the way he’s portrayed in this film. Weather has no moral allegiance, but if it did, the God of Faith Like Potatoes commands what we could call “good” weather. For example, you can count on Him for rain to put out a “runaway fire” — but the lightning that strikes a Zulu woman dead? Must have been Zeus. And don’t even get me started on E