Kompleks(2006)
Overview
Kompleks is a South African, Afrikaans-language sketch comedy television series that chronicles the lives and times of the oddball characters who spend their time on an exclusive golf estate. Each day they ignore, irritate, laugh at and misunderstand each other as they live their separate lives within the same confines.
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