Wan Pipel
About the event
Every year, around independence day, Wan Pipel is broadcast on TV in Surinam, today it will be screened at Eye. 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 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…
