Klanken van oorsprong

Musical documentary about the influence of the Netherlands-East Indian history on modern pop music. How prominent were themes like nostalgia and the identity struggle?

Between 1945 and 1962, more than 350,000 Indo people returned to their original motherland: the Netherlands. Among them many artists who, in individual ways, brought about change in the Dutch musical landscape and far beyond. Incorporating interviews and archive footage from both the colonial era and of original performances, the film shows how Netherlands-East Indian musicians with a touch of nostalgia managed to assimilate, while looking for their own identity. Their music always turned out to be the leitmotif.

Credits

Director

Hetty Naaijkens-Retel Helmrich

Producer

Leonard Retel Helmrich
Joris Naaijkens

Executive producer

Ciska van Beek

Script

Hetty Naaijkens-Retel Helmrich

Camera

Leonard Retel Helmrich
Hari Suprayitno

Sound Design

Ranko Paukovic

Set geluid

Bert van den Dungen
Frenk van der Sterre
Simone Galavazi
Ab Grooters

Sound editing

Ranko Paukovic

Visual Effects

Jasper Naaijkens

Montage

Erik Disselhoff, NCE
Jasper Naaijkens

: Research
Beatrijs van Agt
Hetty Naaijkens-Retel Helmrich
Joris Naaijkens
Still photography
Hetty Naaijkens-Retel Helmrich
Production company
Scarabeefilms
Distributor NL
Cinecitta Films en Meer

Title: Klanken van oorsprong
Year: 2018
Duration : 1 hour, 52 minutes
Category: Long Documentary
Edition: NFF 2018

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