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 The documentary film Tuan Papa (Sir Daddy) now available on DVD!
Director: Annegriet Wietsma / Producer: Jean Hellwig
Documentary 81 minutes 16:9 PAL DVD
With Dutch, Indonesian and English subtitles
Extras: The Making Of - A quest for warlovechildren in Indonesia
Order the DVD here for € 14.95
For Tuan Papa (Sir Daddy) director Annegriet Wietsma spoke with many warlovechildren, soldiers and their former sweethearts in the Netherlands, Australia and Indonesia. Jean Hellwig produced the film in co-production with the Dutch broadcasting channel NTR/VPRO. The audience rated Tuan Papa with the highest appreciation of all VPRO broadcasts in 2010!
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The documentary tells the story of the Dutch troops in Indonesia and the thousands of children they fathered with Indonesian girls during the colonial war from 1946 to 1949. Fathers, mothers and children tell about their experiences. Veterans over 80 years of age talk in all openness about sexuality and love in wartime. Their ‘withheld children’, now all 60+ years old, look back on their youth in the new republic of Indonesia, where they were insulted as ‘offspring of the occupier’. And single mothers in Java and Bali describe their romances in a distant past that had a big impact on the rest of their lives.
Film researcher Gerard Nijssen spent countless hours of searching for archival footage, finding amazing images from early Indonesia. Editor Jelle Redeker edited the material into a jewel of 81 minutes.
The press about Tuan Papa (Sir Daddy):
Taboo subject of unspeakable love stories during war after half a century revealed (De Volkskrant)
Compelling documentary, beautifully told and stunningly appropriate archive footage (De Groene Amsterdammer)
An unexplored area in the historiography (Trouw)
Old stories revive (De Telegraaf)
Tuan Papa unravels a past that no one has so far dared to talk about (Historical News) |
