Movies and Documentaries - The Indo Project

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OEROEG

A film based on the novel of Hella S. Haasse about the forever friendship of a

young Dutch boy and his Indonesian friend.

In 1948, novelist Hella Haasse published a novel based on her experiences in growing up in Dutch Indonesia. Oeroeg captures the dilemma of those caught between the pretensions and culture of their Dutch homeland and their respect and affection for the native people of the colonies, and it has became a classic, with many editions printed. In this story, Johan (Rik Launspach), a European boy grows up on a plantation running and playing with his best friend, the son of the foreman, a native boy called Oeroeg (Martin Schwab). He is only barely aware of the gulf that divides them, but gradually becomes more aware of it as he leaves to study back in the Netherlands. When he comes home, it is as a soldier in the army, who are in Indonesia to put down the local independence movement. Not only is Johan grieved to be taking arms against Indonesians in general, and distressed at the racism of his colleagues, but he has reason to believe that his old friend is now a leader in the forces he is obliged to fight. He goes on a mission into the jungle to find him. ~ Clarke Fountain, NYTimes.com

STILLE KRACHT. (SILENT FORCE ) PART 1

The 1974 AVRO TV play of the novel by Louis Couperus (1900) of the Dutch

colonial society in the former Dutch East Indies featuring Bob de Lange and Pleuni

Touw, now in her eighties. Also playing in a roll the famous Javanese story teller and

dancer Indra Kamadjojo.

De Stille Kracht is the legendary TV play by Walter van der Kamp, based on the famous novel by Louis Couperus. The leading roles include Pleuni Touw, Bob de Lange, Willem Nijholt, Caro van Eyck and Hans Dagelet. With music by Tonny Eyk. In the sweltering Dutch East Indies, the European is plagued by what the Javanese call ‘the silent force’: a combination of tropical magic, eastern inscrutability and mutual incomprehension. The resident of the island, his son, daughter and seductive wife slowly but surely fall prey to this mysterious silent force …

STILLE KRACHT. (HIDDEN POWER ) PART 2

The 1974 AVRO TV play of the novel by Louis Couperus (1900) of the Dutch

colonial society in the former Dutch East Indies featuring Bob de Lange and Pleuni

Touw, now in her eighties. Also playing in a roll the famous Javanese story teller and

dancer Indra Kamadjojo.

STILLE KRACHT. (HIDDEN POWER ) PART 3

The 1974 AVRO TV play of the novel by Louis Couperus (1900) of the Dutch

colonial society in the former Dutch East Indies featuring Bob de Lange and Pleuni

Touw, now in her eighties. Also playing in a roll the famous Javanese story teller and

dancer Indra Kamadjojo.

REVOLUTION.

The Indonesian Independence war against the Dutch

MR. PASSAGE INTERVIEW

Suikerfreule

Dirk van der Kooy goes back to the Dutch East Indies for another five year stint as the administrator of a sugar factory. His second wife Betje unexpectedly finds she can sell her little shop and decides to join him. Once there, she finds it hard to adjust and the fact that Dirk has a daughter from an earlier marriage to a Javanese woman makes it all the more difficult for Betje. There are rows and misunderstandings galore but finally Dirk and Betje kiss and make up and daughter Dolly marries her adored assistant administrator. | The film is set mostly in the Dutch East Indies but was largely filmed at the Cinetone Studios in Duivendrecht.

Max Havelaar

An idealistic Dutch colonial officer posted to Indonesia in the 19th century is convinced that he can make the kinds of changes that will actually help the local people he is in charge of, but circumstances soon make him realise just how out of touch he really is, and it doesn’t take long for things to go from bad to worse.

(Dutch: Max Havelaar of de koffieveilingen der Nederlandsche handelsmaatschappij) is a 1976 Dutch drama film directed by Fons Rademakers, based on the 1860 novel Max Havelaar by Multatuli. It was the country’s submission for Best Foreign Language Film at the 49th Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee.

EDUARD DOUWES DEKKER (2 March 1820 – 19 February 1887), better known by his pen name Multatuli (from Latin multa tulī, “I have suffered much”), was a Dutch writer best known for his satirical novel Max Havelaar (1860), which denounced the abuses of colonialism in the Dutch East Indies (today’s Indonesia). He is considered one of the Netherlands’ greatest authors.

A TIME TO REMEMBER – Tropic of Emerald

The turbulent decade from 1939 till 1949 in the former DEI depicted in a dramatic movie of a man and a woman with news reel footage of that period inserted to time stamped the timeline of the story. A Dutchman falls in love with a married Indonesian woman on an East Indies plantation during de-colonization.

Documentary about the former colony of the Dutch East Indies. The presence of the Dutch in what is now called Indonesia goes back more than three centuries. The colonial past has left its traces there, but also in the Netherlands. Not least in the collective memories of both peoples. Dutch memories of the colonial era in the Dutch East Indies are often drenched in nostalgia and melancholy, waving palms and the gamelan. The triptych Formerly the Dutch East Indies shows that reality was often different. The documentary focuses on the colonial past, the turbulent struggle for independence in the years ’45 -’49 and the relationship between the Dutch and Indonesians to this day.

SJORS VAN DER PANNE.
The Dutch Indo singer Sjors vd Panne visiting Dutch cemeteries in Indonesia maintained by the Oorlogs Graven Stichting. Foundation of war cemeteries.

JACK BOER.

The story of a Dutch KNIL officer, disguised in an English uniform, 10 Gurkhas, using a Stewart Tank in a daring rescue of 2384 Dutch citizens from a “pemuda” prison in Surabaya in 1945 fighting 100 heavily armed guards saving the prisoners as they were about to be poisoned en masse.

WAT KOMEN JULLIE HIER DOEN?
What are you doing here? The unwelcome question posed to Indos and Ambonese by the Dutch when they arrived in the Netherlands.

INDO ELDERLY IN BANDUNG

The forgotten elderly Indos in Bandung who for different reason did not join the Indo exodus to the Netherlands and are now living under difficult conditions. They are being supported by private organizations in the Netherlands and California.