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SELLING A COLONIAL WAR

By In-Soo RADSTAKE

SEE NL (EYE / NETHERLANDS FILMFUND / NETHERLANDS FILM COMMISSION) - as PROMO

Documentary - Completed 2023

SELLING A COLONIAL WAR reveals how, for decades, the Dutch government has framed its colonial war in Indonesia as ‘just’, backed by politicians, media and historians

- Year of production
- 2023
- Genres
- Documentary
- Countries
- NETHERLANDS
- Languages
- ENGLISH, DUTCH, INDONESIAN
- Duration
- 120 mn
- Director(s)
- In-Soo RADSTAKE
- Writer(s)
- In-Soo RADSTAKE, Nadadja KEMPER
- Producer(s)
- Nadadja KEMPER (Holland Harbour), Rob VERMEULEN (Holland Harbour)
- Synopsis
- This film reveals how the Dutch government has maintained the notion of a ‘just war’ in Indonesia almost to this present day, and how politicians, media and historians have played a questionable role in perpetuating this myth. How did the government and top diplomats control the narrative of its actions during the Indonesian battle for independence? The documentary places, for the first time, this war in the international political context of that time.