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Jan Brokken Zijn Oorlog (2025)

Name: Jan Brokken Zijn Oorlog
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2025-08-14T17:30:56+02:00
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Documentary | 55 minutes

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Genre: Documentary

Duration: 55 minuten

Country: Netherlands

Directed by: Nathalie Toisuta

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Jan Brokken Zijn Oorlog plot

In this documentary, author Jan Brokken tells the story of his own family. His parents and two older brothers survived for over three years in Japanese internment camps on Sulawesi. One in six people did not survive these camps. Many died of hunger, exhaustion, abuse, or disease.

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mrklm

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14 August 2025 at 17:30

Because he wasn't born until 1949, Jan Brokken could never grasp what his parents and brothers endured in the Japanese camps on Celebes. He has written three books to date, detailing the largely concealed history of his family and their fellow sufferers. Now he travels to Sulawesi (formerly Celebes) in an attempt to get closer to his family history. Brokken is full of anecdotes, and Toisuta fills the rest of this superficial documentary with quotes from Brokken's books and picturesque images that reinforce the stereotypical (and outdated) image of Sulawesi. Nothing new under the sun.