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Nazaten (2025)

Name: Nazaten
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2025-02-21T12:41:00+01:00
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Documentary | 51 minutes

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Genre: Documentary

Duration: 51 minuten

Country: Netherlands

Directed by: Frans Bromet

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Nazaten plot

In the documentary Nazaten Bromet delves into his family history. His famous ancestor Hermanus Bromet became the first Jewish member of parliament in the Netherlands in the eighteenth century, after having become rich in the coffee trade. During his years in Suriname, Hermanus traded in enslaved people who had to work on the plantations in the colony. Bromet struggles with the question of whether he should feel guilty about Hermanus' actions.

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mrklm

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16 February 2025 at 17:31

Frans Bromet talks to Surinamese Brian Saaki, the new postman who regularly takes books from the public bookcase at Bromet's mailbox. Brian appears to send these books to his family in the "Surinamese jungle" and also lets us know that the name Bromet is of great significance in Suriname. Moreover, Frans must be a descendant of this Hermanus Bromet. Frans looks up namesakes, first in the Netherlands and later in Suriname, and discovers that Hermanus was a human rights activist who traded in slaves. How exactly does this work and should Frans do with this information? As always, Bromet respects his conversation partners and it is refreshing to give Brian's critical but nuanced point of view some space. Bromet's family research raises pressing questions, but his approach is less careful than we are used to from him, possibly because he himself was not convinced of the correct approach to this sensitive subject. Provocative, but not Bromet's best work.