Wan Pipel ( English : One People ) is a 1976 Surinamese - Dutch drama film directed by Pim de la Parra . The screenplay was written by Rudi Kross and Lou Lichtveld . The leading roles are played by Borger Breeveld , Diana Gangaram Panday, and Willeke van Ammelrooy .
5-479: The film, produced by Wim Verstappen , was the first Surinamese film after independence. The budget was far exceeded and the expected visitor numbers were far from being achieved. The argument that as a result, between 'Pim and Wim' was meant the end for "Scorpio Films". Roy ( Borger Breeveld ) is an Afro-Surinamese man who studies in the Netherlands . He is recalled by telegram to Suriname because his mother
10-498: Is dying. His Dutch girlfriend Karina ( Willeke van Ammelrooy ) lends him money for a plane ticket. Back in his homeland, Roy soon becomes obsessed with his own country and its culture. When he falls for an Indo-Surinamese Hindu nurse, Rubia (Diana Gangaram Panday), the conservative Hindu and Black communities are in revolt. Roy will not return to the Netherlands to finish his studies, even if Karina comes to pick him up. His duty
15-693: Is in Suriname, he says. This article related to a Dutch film is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Wim Verstappen Wim Verstappen (4 May 1937 – 24 July 2004) was a Dutch film director and producer , television director , and screenwriter . Verstappen grew up in Curaçao . He began studies at the Netherlands Film and Television Academy in 1961, and released his first movie in 1966, De minder gelukkige terugkeer van Joszef Katus naar het land van Rembrandt . He joined
20-574: The Dutch film rating system for adults. After the demise of Scorpio Films, Verstappen directed two films based on novels by Simon Vestdijk , Pastorale 1943 (1978) and Het verboden bacchanaal (1981). While the first was a commercial success, drawing an audience of over a million, the second film flopped, as did two later films, De Zwarte Ruiter (1983) and De Ratelrat (1987). Verstappen stopped directing films and focused on film rights, founding an organization to secure authors' copyrights. In 1992 he
25-400: The editorial staff of the film magazine Skoop in 1963, working alongside Nikolai van der Heyde , Gied Jaspars , and Pim de la Parra . From 1966 on he directed and produced films with De la Parra, and in 1967 they founded a production company, Scorpio Films , becoming known as 'Pim & Wim'. Among their productions was the 1971 explicit film Blue Movie , which led to the abolition of
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