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One People

1976 · 111 min

A slow, earnest drama of torn loyalties and cultural friction, watching a man choose between two lives with quiet, mounting tension.

Directed by: Pim de la Parra
Genres: Romance, Drama
Starring: Borger Breeveld, Diana Gangaram Panday, Willeke van Ammelrooy

Tagline: One was black. One was white. One was brown.
Overview: Back in his native Suriname to see his dying mother, an Afro-Surinamese student from the Netherlands’ former colony finds himself torn between his Amsterdam-based life with his white Dutch girlfriend and a future in his newly independent homeland when he falls for a local Hindostani nurse.

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Directed by: Pim de la Parra
Genres: Romance, Drama
Starring: Borger Breeveld, Diana Gangaram Panday, Willeke van Ammelrooy

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Tone: melancholicstrength 2 of 3
romanticstrength 2 of 3
earneststrength 2 of 3
tensestrength 1 of 3
Pacing: measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: identity
love
family
class
betrayal
Places: small town
countryside
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: None
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence mild
Sex mild

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Action	2
Horror	0
Humour	2
Realism	8
Romance	6
Tension	5
Darkness	4
Complexity	5
Emotional weight	7

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Genres: romance, drama
Directed by: Pim de la Parra
Written by: Pim de la Parra, Rudi F. Kross
Starring: Borger Breeveld, Diana Gangaram Panday, Willeke van Ammelrooy, Emanuel van Gonter, Ro Jackson-Breeveld, Sieuwpal Soekhlall, Dick Scheffer, Otto Sterman
Cinematography: Marc Felperlaan
Runtime: 111 min
Country: Suriname, Netherlands
Languages: Hindi, Dutch

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