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The impressive and important documentary Selling a Colonial War won the IDFA ReFrame Award in November. This award recognises filmmakers who use archives in an extraordinary way in their work. The reason for making this documentary were interviews with veterans who told about their experiences in the Dutch East Indies and the jargon they used. Cassette tapes from 1975 play an important role in this documentary.
Using the interviews, director In-Soo Radstake examines how the Dutch government managed to sell the action In Indonesia as a noble act. “And they were very successful at that. An awful lot of volunteers came forward at the time. Those guys had just come out of five years of war and had seen how the allies had been received here. They were led to believe that a similar reception awaited Dutch people in the East Indies. Who didn’t want that? I probably would have fallen for it too.”
The documentary ‘Een goed begin – bevallen in Nederland’ (70′) will be screened at several locations nationwide in the near future.
You can register at info@vertelburo.nl to be notified when the screening dates and locations of the national screenings are known. It is also possible to screen the documentary at your own chosen location.
Questions about the documentary, the exhibition or the educational programme?
info@sporenvanindie.nl – or via the website.
After four centuries of shared history, almost 10% of Dutch people have Indian blood in their family. In the cinematic documentary ‘Traces of Indies’, presenter Hans Goedkoop brings national history to life through the historical intertwining of the East Indies and the city of Amersfoort, just another city in the middle of the Netherlands.
Producer Reda van der Putten worked for two years on the preliminary research. Presenter Hans Goedkoop wrote the script and presents the documentary. Many aspects of Indian influences on the complete Dutch society are covered: The Indos, the Moluccans but also the veterans and the Totoks, the plantations and the boarding houses.
Check out the trailer:
interviews:
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Former soldiers tell, sometimes for the first time, about their experiences around this secret port on the Rhine.
The Defence Harbour was part of the IJssel Line: a Cold War waterline that had to protect the country against a possible invasion by the Soviet Union. The IJssel Line and with it the Arnhem harbour were extremely secret until the end of the Cold War. Stories about this time are therefore very scarce.
documentary:
Geheim aan de Rijn
And the stories that are there, are still unknown to many people. The documentary ‘Geheim aan de Rijn’ changes all that. For the city of Arnhem, Erfgoed Gelderland interviewed former soldiers who witnessed this hidden history.
Alletun Productions compiled the interviews into a unique documentary.
