De blanke slavin
René Daalder / NL, 1969 / 103 min.
Feature debut by René Daalder, who in the sixties was among the first cohort of students to study at the Film Academy – also known as the ‘Dutch New Wave’. De blanke slavin is a thriller, comedy and melodrama in one, and according to Daalder was ‘a hugely serious, pessimistic film’.
The plot of De blanke slavin is as follows: after the War, German Günther Ungeheuer looks up his girlfriend in Amsterdam. For obscure reasons, he soon finds himself in a villa where two women are being kept as 'white slaves', and are being forced to learn all kinds of erotic skills; a private detective arrives to find out what’s going on.
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Director
René Daalder
Production year
1969
Country
NL
Original title
De blanke slavin
Length
103 min.
Language
none
Subtitles
NONE
Format
DCP
Part of
Dutch New Wave
They were young and wanted to counter what they saw as the staid, middle-class Dutch cinema of the fifties. Adriaan Ditvoorst, Pim de la Parra, Frans Weisz, Wim Verstappen, René Daalder and Nikolai van der Heyde were captivated by the free, unembellished Italian neorealist style and the French nouvelle vague; they wanted to make films about life itself, with true-to-life characters, like those of Roberto Rossellini, Vittorio De Sica, François Truffaut and Jean-Luc Godard.
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