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Klaas de Jonge, de Prijs van Vrijheid (2023)

Documentary | 66 minutes
3,70 5 votes

Genre: Documentary

Duration: 66 minuten

Country: Netherlands

Directed by: Marlou van den Berge

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Klaas de Jonge, de Prijs van Vrijheid plot

The Dutch anti-apartheid activist Klaas de Jonge is arrested in South Africa in 1985 on suspicion of arms smuggling and terrorism that resulted in deaths. De Jonge ingeniously manages to escape the South African police by fleeing into the Dutch embassy in Pretoria. He has been imprisoned there for more than two years. More than thirty years later, de Jonge looks back on his time in captivity.

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In July 1985, the South African police arrested Dutch activist Klaas de Jonge, who was at the time in the Dutch embassy in Johannesburg, on suspicion of terrorism. After intervention by the Dutch government, De Jonge returned to the embassy, which he was only able to leave unhindered two years later after a complicated prisoner exchange. Van den Berge takes De Jonge back to the place where he was imprisoned, arranges the space and the immediate surroundings as much as possible as they were then and sketches a portrait of the now very elderly activist (who died in 2023) on the basis of confrontational conversations. Not only with his children, but also with one of the Marechaussees who guarded him for several months, a senior police officer who was involved in the arrest and people who were direct or indirect victims of the terrorist actions in which De Jonge was involved. A daring and successful design that effectively provides insight into the many perspectives on the consequences of De Jonge's activism.

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