Wan Pipel
Pim de la Parra / NL, SR, 1976 / 110 min.
Every year, around independence day, Wan Pipel is broadcast on TV in Surinam, today it will be screened at Eye in collaboration with MUBI and Patta. Pim de la Parra's restored classic depicts the tensions between young Surinamese idealists and their former motherland. Includes a video introduction by Pim de la Parra.
Pim de la Parra's film about the student Roy Ferrol who returns to Paramaribo is viewed as 'the first Surinamese feature film'. Director
Director De la Parra’s Wan Pipel discusses subjects that were controversial at the time.
Will Roy (Borger Breeveld), a business studies student opt for his white girlfriend Karina (Van Ammelrooy) or follow his heart and marry the Hindustani Rubia (Diana Gangaram Panday) to help develop Surinam? Roy becomes ensnarled between two worlds when he returns to the town of his birth to see his dying mother.
Details
Director
Pim de la Parra
Production year
1976
Country
NL, SR
Original title
Wan Pipel
Length
110 min.
Language
Dutch, Hindi
Subtitles
ENG
Format
DCP
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