Multatuli's famous political indictment of the colonial regime in what was then the Dutch East Indies adapted into a tense, powerful epic drama. In Memoriam Peter Faber, who shines as the headstrong protagonist. Screening on 35mm.
As a local government officer for the poor, turbulent Lebak region on West Java, writer Eduard Douwes Dekker (pseudonym: Multatuli) came into conflict with the Dutch governors. This led to his dismissal. Fons Rademakers filmed his famous novel Max Havelaar (1859), an indictment of the exploitation of ‘the native Javanese’.
In Memoriam Peter Faber, who shines as the headstrong protagonist who protests against the way wealthy Dutch coffee traders and local governors exploit and oppress the…
