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Ze Noemen Me Baboe (2019)

Documentary | 78 minutes
3,61 36 votes

Genre: Documentary

Duration: 78 minuten

Alternative title: They Call Me Babu

Country: Netherlands

Directed by: Sandra Beerends

Starst: and Denise Aznam

IMDb score: 7,8 (179)

Releasedate: 28 November 2019

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Ze Noemen Me Baboe plot

Documentary that tells the life story of the Javanese Alima. On the run from a forced marriage, Alima finds work as a babu (nanny) for a Dutch family in the 1940s. She travels with them to the Netherlands, where she is influenced by Indonesian students who dream of an independent Indonesia. When she returns, her Dutch family ends up in a camp during the Japanese occupation. As a result, Alima loses her family, work and home. She falls in love with independence fighter Ribut and becomes pregnant. When Riboet is killed in a police action after the capitulation, her family wants her to marry her brother-in-law 'honourably', but Alima chooses to go her own way as a single mother with her daughter in independent Indonesia.

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T.O.

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Beautiful concept and very poetically presented. Even though it is a 'composite' story, the images together with the narration bring you very close to life in that period.

The downside is that it requires quite a bit from the viewer; I myself fell asleep halfway through the playing time and watched the rest a day later.

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mrklm

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Loosely translated, Babu means 'madam mother'. It is the nickname of the main character in this story, which is based on the personal stories of dozens of young Indonesian women who worked as nannies for Dutch families in the 1930s and 1940s. Using archive footage and private footage of such a family with nannies, Beerends tells the story of a village girl who was rejected by her family because they wanted to have a son. She leaves for the city and signs up for an adventure into the unknown: she takes care of the two children of a Dutch family during their boat trip and their stay in the Netherlands. Shortly after her return, Indonesia is occupied by Japan. The dry commentary and the archive footage make it a bit difficult to get into, but those who can muster a little patience await a beautifully, intelligently written story that subtly interweaves social criticism in a personal account.

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