Nederland leest Oeroeg

The story

Reading relay of the novel 'Oeroeg' by Hella Haasse by eighty well-known and lesser-known Dutch people. Each person reads a page aloud, after which the book is passed on to the next reader. Philip Freriks, news anchor and ambassador for Nederland Leest, opens the reading relay. Director Shireen Strooker concludes it. 'Oeroeg' is Hella Haasse's debut novel from 1948. Haasse tells the story of the friendship between an Indonesian boy and the son of a Dutch administrator at a tea plantation in the Dutch East Indies before the Second World War. Gradually, the two boys grow apart. When the narrator, the Dutch boy, returns to the Indies—which has not yet quite become Indonesia—after studying in Delft, their estrangement turns out to have grown into a chasm. The final sentence reads: "Am I forever a stranger in the land of my birth, on the soil from which I do not wish to be uprooted? Time will tell."

Cast

A Ahmed AboutalebSelf H Hedy d'AnconaSelf A Abdelkader BenaliSelf N Noraly BeyerSelf N Naima El BezazSelf M Marion BloemSelf P Peter BlokSelf M Michiel BorstlapSelf A Aaf Brandt CorstiusSelf R Remco CampertSelf B Bart ChabotSelf A Adriaan van DisSelf

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P Peter FaberSelf P Philip FreriksSelf T Tygo GernandtSelf H Hanneke GroentemanSelf B Boris van der HamSelf I Ingmar HeytzeSelf I Isa HoesSelf M Marc-Marie HuijbregtsSelf J Jennifer HoffmanSelf H Hans HylkemaSelf Y Yvonne KeulsSelf M Martin KoolhovenSelf J John LeerdamSelf M Marius van MelleSelf J Joep OnderdelindenSelf R Rick NiemanSelf M Matthijs van NieuwkerkSelf W Willem NijholtSelf J Joost PrinsenSelf E Edwin RuttenSelf W Wim T. SchippersSelf M Martin SchwabSelf M Mart SmeetsSelf S Shireen StrookerSelf H Humberto TanSelf R Roué VerveerSelf M Mei Li VosSelf V Viggo WaasSelf J Jan Jaap van der WalSelf J Joost ZwagermanSelf D DioSelf H Hans van VelzenSelf S Sabine UitslagSelf R Roos RebergenSelf E Eva JinekSelf R Roos SmitSelf