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Women of Suriname (1978)

Het Onbekende Suriname

Gênero : Documentário

Runtime : 55M

Director : At van Praag

Sinopse

Oema Foe Sranang (1978), translated in Dutch as Vrouwen van Suriname, was a film made in close collaboration with LOSON (Landelijke Organisatie Strijd Organisatie Suriname). This anti-colonial, feminist portrait of the lives of five Surinamese women came about after the recent independence of Suriname in 1975, also shedding a light on the experience of the Surinamese migrants entering the Netherlands and the Dutch hostile attitude towards this large flow of migrants.

Atores

Tripulações

Nadia Tilon

Producer

Henk Lalji

Cinematography

At van Praag

Director

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