Underplayed Gems

Plantage Tamarinde (1964)

Plantage Tamarinde poster
Directed by
Michael Forlong
Genre
drama, history
Country
Netherlands
Runtime
1h 43m
Rating
8.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

A Dutch black and white film shot mostly on the Antilles. It follows events around a plantation location. The film had poor reception and copies were lost in a fire.

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What happens

Plantage Tamarinde is een Nederlandse zwart-witfilm uit 1964, geregisseerd door Michael Forlong. De film draaide niet lang in de bioscopen. De beelden werden door critici slecht bevonden. De filmkeuring vond de buitenopnames van een slechte kwaliteit en de bandopnames drastisch verouderd. Het origineel en een aantal kopieën bevonden zich in het Haagse City Theater en gingen verloren toen het gebouw plots afbrandde. Mogelijk bestaan er nog enkele kopieën. De film werd voor driekwart opgenomen op de Nederlandse Antillen. De buitenopnames zijn opgenomen in de omgeving van Plantage Knip in Bandabou. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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