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Mother Dao the Turtlelike

Audience Score
80
Mother Dao the Turtlelike
NR 1 hr 30 minHistory, Documentary
In a span of ninety minutes the film aims to show how the Netherlands administered its colony as a colonial enterprise and what the relations were like at the time The usual commentary has been omitted and in its place poems and songs in Bahasa Indonesia have been included in a digital sound composition In Mother Dao the Turtlelike the viewer sees how the colonial machinery in the 1920s was implanted in a world so different from Western Europe
DirectorVincent Monnikendam

Movie Details

Original Language:Dutch
Production Companies:Nederlandse Programma Stichting NPS