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Holland's past

2008 · 1 season

A calm, scholarly ramble through museums, landscapes and old fragments, inviting you to piece together centuries of ordinary lives.

Created by
Charles Groenhuijsen
Genres
Documentary
Starring
Charles Groenhuijsen, Jan Decleir, Elsie de Brauw
Tagline
A never-ending bog, on the farther side of coastlines
Overview
A series of eight episodes documenting 250.000 years of history. Charles Groenhuijsen takes us along sights and locations that historically harbored various inhabitants of ‘The Lowlands’. In what today is known as The Netherland, Belgium, Germany, New York, Ghana, Surinam, and Indonesia, Charles will be looking for the stories of ‘our’ past through potsherds, bones, stones, ancient text's, drawings, paintings, pictures, radio, and tv- fragments

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Created by
Charles Groenhuijsen
Genres
Documentary
Starring
Charles Groenhuijsen, Jan Decleir, Elsie de Brauw
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Tone
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
  • warmstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • memory
  • identity
  • colonialism
  • exploration
  • nature
Places
  • countryside
  • sea
  • big city
Era
period
Audience
adult
Form
  • documentary
  • serialised
  • true story
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language none
  • Violence mild
  • Sex none
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Scales, 0 to 10
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Action1
Horror1
Humour2
Realism9
Romance1
Tension2
Darkness3
Complexity5
Emotional weight4

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Details

Genres
documentary
Created by
Charles Groenhuijsen
Starring
Charles Groenhuijsen, Jan Decleir, Elsie de Brauw
Length
1 seasons, 8 episodes, 50 min each
Network
VPRO
Country
Belgium, Germany, Ghana, Indonesia, Netherlands, Suriname, United States of America
Languages
Dutch

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