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Bela Bela - Ik Heb het Leven Nodig (2001)

Name: Bela Bela - Ik Heb het Leven Nodig
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2020-08-03T13:40:09+02:00
Rating: 3

Documentary | 73 minutes

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Genre: Documentary

Duration: 73 minuten

Alternative title: Bela Bela - What Keeps Mankind Alive

Country: Netherlands

Directed by: Marjoleine Boonstra

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Bela Bela - Ik Heb het Leven Nodig plot

Four poets: a Russian, a Russian, a Romanian and a Cuban. All four won the Poetry International Award of Honor for poets in captivity. They are now free and talk about their time in prison. Especially about the senses: in prison everything looks gray, it doesn't smell like a woman, says the Russian, and never like youth, and the sounds are of footsteps and bars. Director Marjoleine Boonstra weaves together the impressions into a universal portrait of captivity. The interviewees speak softly about a hard past, about the sad but powerful way in which human dignity survived human cruelty.