The East / 2021

A young Dutch soldier deployed to suppress post-WWII independence efforts in the Netherlands’ colony of Indonesia finds himself torn between duty and conscience when he joins an increasingly ruthless commander’s elite squad.

Hoog Spel in de Oost / 2023

Waves of War / 2023

Daan van Citters and Joenoes Polnaija retrace the footsteps of their grandfathers in Indonesia. They both fought for the Netherlands against Indonesian independence: Daan’s grandfather went voluntarily from the Netherlands, Joenoes’s as a Moluccan soldier in the Dutch colonial army, KNIL. Their poignant journey forces them to ask themselves some difficult questions about guilt, shame and transgenerational transmission.

The Return of the 6th KLM Mail Plane from 'The East' / 1929

The return of the Fokker postal aeroplane the “PH-AEN”, which took place on 22 January, 1929 at Schiphol airport, Netherlands. The pilots Duimelaar and Frijns and the mechanic Bruinesteyn are received by a large group of people, and Duimelaar winks at the camera.

The Cultivation of Tea in the Far East / 1920

Short report about the production of tea in (possibly) Ceylon (Sri Lanka).

Terug naar Oosterdonk / 1997

La valle dell'Eden / 19557.882 voti

California 1917: Cal, figlio disamato di Adam, si ribella al padre severo, rivaleggia col fratello Aron e scopre che la madre, creduta morta, dirige un bordello. Da una parte del romanzo East of Eden (1952) di John Steinbeck, adattato da Paul Osborne, è una parafrasi (o un'interpretazione?) in chiave psicanalitica della storia di Caino e Abele dove il primo non è malvagio, ma disperato e cerca di trovare nell'amore la salvezza. 1° film a colori di Kazan e il suo 1° in Cinemascope (genialmente usato) e da lui prodotto. È anche il 1° film di Dean protagonista e rimane tuttora soprattutto come il suo ritratto. Oscar a J. Van Fleet nella parte della madre.

The Strawberry Shortcake Movie: Sky's the Limit / 2009

A sudden storm leaves Berry Bitty City with a gigantic problem. Strawberry Shortcake and her friends will have to move their whole tiny town unless they find a way to safely remove a huge boulder that threatens everything they hold dear.