Max Havelaar
Barcode: 58925497
Call Number: V-DUT 006
Material Type: Video -DVD
Time: 170 min.
Date: c1978
System Requirements: PAL, Region 2
DVD Region: Region 2
Language: Dutch
Creator: Directed by Fons Rademakers
Description: A film about Dutch colonialism in Indonesia centering on the character Max Havelaar. A lavish, sprawling saga that relentlessly critiques the colonial situation in the Dutch East Indies. Peter Faber stars as the eponymous hero, an idealistic bureaucrat promoted to a supervisory position on Java. Young, vigorous and uncompromising, Havelaar is determined to reform the corrupt local administration. But his high-minded plans are swiftly met with resistance-at first subtle, then dangerously explicit-from his colonial superiors as well as the island's native leaders, all of whom profit from the exploitative system.
Collection: Language Resource Center