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Moeder Suriname (2023)

Name: Moeder Suriname
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2024-07-05T17:50:42+02:00
Rating: 3.2

Documentary | 71 minutes

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Genre: Documentary

Duration: 71 minuten

Country: Netherlands

Directed by: Tessa Leuwsha

IMDb score: 7,3 (30)

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Moeder Suriname plot

Documentary that uses unique archive material to tell the life story of a Surinamese washerwoman, inspired by Tessa's grandmother Fansi. The life story covers the period from the abolition of slavery in 1863 to Surinamese independence in 1975. Fansi's story begins in an abandoned village where she grew up as a house slave, after being given up by her white mother and black father. When Fansi becomes a mother at a young age and is abandoned by her husband, she moves to Paramaribo to offer her children a better future. As a single mother, she fights hard to offer her children better opportunities. When her children leave for the Netherlands, she is left alone, not ready to leave Suriname. Only in her last years did she cross over to the Netherlands herself and experience the uprooting of her motherland.

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mrklm

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5 July 2024 at 14:02

Leuwsha tells the story of Suriname in the 20th century based on the life story of her grandmother Franceline Cummings (1905-1979). A child of a white mother and a black father who grew up with Ma Louise, went to work as a laundress for “Bakra's” (white Dutch people), found her great love and raised children from different fathers. The Second World War causes turmoil in Suriname and later in life she follows her children to the Netherlands. As a historiography, it is especially interesting when social and political relations begin to change. Jannah's commentary is not always convincing and sometimes downright mechanical, and the connection between what she says and what we see is not always clear.