Het Monument (1999)

Het Monument plot

When the resistance monument on Dam Square was erected in 1956, the city council of Amsterdam promised to take care of this national memorial 'in perpetuity'. But in 1996 the monument appeared to be falling apart and paradoxically had to be restored by a German company. The restoration of the monument was the reason for filmmaker Elings to make the documentary. That eternal does not have to be forever is apparent not only from the poor physical conditions of the image, but also from the changing view with regard to continuing to commemorate historical events. Through, among other things, never-before-seen archive material from the most filmed square in the Netherlands, a picture is also given of our national history. With the arrival of the Germans in 1940, the liberation in 1945; the departure of Dutch soldiers to the Dutch East Indies, changes to the throne and the actions of the Provos in the 1960s.

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