One People

A young student is studying in the Netherlands. His origins are in Suriname. When his mother falls seriously ill he goes back. Suriname has just become independent. He has a settled life in Amsterdam. He has a Dutch girlfriend there. On this visit he meets someone else. She is a nurse from the Hindostani community. Something grows between the two of them. It also raises the distance between two communities. The student is caught between two lives. One is Amsterdam, the other is home. The film is about Suriname after independence. Its title means one people. Borger Breeveld, Diana Gangaram Panday and Willeke van Ammelrooy appear in the hundred and eleven minute film, a Surinamese and Dutch production Pim de la Parra finished in 1976.