Tillema, de Multatuli van de fotografie

2006

52m

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Eleven thousand photos, six miles of footage, three hundred books and eighteen volumes of Indië Oud en Nieuw: this is the historical legacy of Hendrik Tillema, who was born in Friesland and worked his way up to a successful producer of carbonated drinks in the Netherlands East-Indies early last century. He used his accumulated wealth to improve the life of the orang tekil (the common man) in Indonesia. For example, he published his own book about the lack of a sewer system and he saw to it that the local population was vaccinated ('one vaccinator does more for the pacification of Indonesia than an army of soldiers'). By means of a staggering amount of self-shot and collected material, this `one-man Third World movement' qualified the limited, positive image of our former colony that persisted until the forties.

Status: Released

Language: NL

Production Information

Production Companies

EYE Film Institute Netherlands

Production Countries

Netherlands

Spoken Languages

Dutch

Quick Facts

Release Date	October 1, 2006
Status	Released
Language	NL

Cast

Key Crew

Herman de Boer

Director

Frank Roumen

Producer

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