Hoe Duur Was de Suiker (2013)
Genre: Drama / History
Duration: 120 minuten
Country:
Netherlands / Germany / South Africa
Directed by: Jean van de Velde
Stars: Yootha Wong-Loi-Sing, Gaite Jansen and Benja Bruijning
IMDb score:
6,8 (1.750)
Releasedate: 26 September 2013
This movie is not available on US streaming services.
Hoe Duur Was de Suiker plot
"Two half sister, bound by slavery, divided by love"
The story of two half-sisters in eighteenth-century Suriname: the white Sarith and her personal slave Mini-Mini. While Sarith becomes embittered by the hard life in the colony, Mini-Mini gets her own chance at happiness. Can and dare she seize it at the expense of her mistress and half-sister?
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Actors and actresses
Reinder Almersma
Sarith
Nathan
Elza
Mini-Mini
Rutger
Father Nassy
Van Omhoog
Von Beunekom
Rich merchant
Reviews & comments
Donkerwoud
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- 8843 messages
- 4029 votes
It's starting to bother me that historical drama in the Netherlands should continue to feel so devilishly stale. As if the costs for decoration and expensive sets prevent it from coming up with a surprising and unconventional script. This may also explain why, in these kinds of ambitious projects, the choice is often made for book adaptations of popular novels.
How Expensive Was the Sugar is by no means a bad film, but it has that politically correct tone everywhere that you might have gotten away with in the nineties but that is no longer of this time. We have all grown up with the idea that slavery is a disgusting thing and that we should reject it to the very core (rightly so!). But what does a film like this add to that well-known image?
Attempts are still being made to incorporate something of an unusual perspective by humanizing the plantation owners. Still, it doesn't manage to get real shades of gray anywhere. It remains to be seen how disgusting the system actually was. What also doesn't help is that the story seems to jump from one piece to the next, even in the mini-series where there is time to work it out in more detail. This makes it a fragmentary mess that offers little room for psychological depth.
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K. V.
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- 4426 messages
- 3816 votes
Watched this movie and thought it was a great movie. Despite the fact that the main character is not that sympathetic, it still manages to captivate from start to finish. The cast did a great job and the movie looked good.
A fine Dutch film, thought it was worth watching.
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IH88
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- 9810 messages
- 3201 votes
How Expensive Was the Sugar
Reasonable historical film. The biggest downside of Hoe Duur Was de Suiker is that it is all so conventional and predictable, and then there is also the sometimes very mediocre acting and the terrible dialogues. The Dutch film problem so to speak, although visually and in terms of story it is all well put together. How Expensive Was the Sugar is not annoying to watch either, but I expected a little more from it.
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