Papa's Song / ArtMattan Productions.

Format:

Video

Contributor:

Francken, Sander, 1952- director.

ArtMattan Productions.

Films Media Group, film distributor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African diaspora--Drama.

African diaspora.

Dysfunctional families--Netherlands--Drama.

Dysfunctional families.

Curaçao--Race relations--Drama.

Curaçao.

Race relations.

Netherlands.

Genre:

Drama.

Internet videos.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 video file (92 minutes)) : sound, color

Distribution:

New York, N.Y. : Distributed by Films Media Group, 2015.

Place of Publication:

[New York] : ArtMattan Productions, [1999]

Language Note:

Closed-captioned.

System Details:

video file

Summary:

Papa's Song is a drama of domestic tension and cross-cultural misunderstanding. Nico Verema, a decorous, somewhat gloomy Dutch magistrate, lives happily with his wife, Shirley, who is from Curacao. Shirley's two young nephews, in the Netherlands to escape a bad situation at home, complete the household. The atmosphere of calm bourgeois propriety is soon upended by the arrival of the boys' mother, Magda. Shirley and Magda's relationship is very stormy: they careen from screaming recrimination to tearful tenderness. Nico tries to mediate and soothe, but when Shirley, who cannot bear children, demands that he impregnate her sister, the good judge finds himself entangled in an intergenerational, trans-Atlantic web of family dysfunction.

Credits:

Directed by Sander Francken.

Notes:

Countries of Production: The Netherlands and Curacao.

Originally released by ArtMattan Productions, 1999.

Title from distributor's description (Films Media Group, March 10, 2016).

OCLC:

946096091

Publisher Number:

110346 Films Media Group

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.