Nederland leest Oeroeg

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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."

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Creators

Hella Haasse

writer

Cast

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Ahmed Aboutaleb actor

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Hedy d'Ancona actor Abdelkader Benali actor

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Noraly Beyer actor

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Naima El Bezaz actor Marion Bloem actor Peter Blok actor

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Michiel Borstlap actor

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Aaf Brandt Corstius actor

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Remco Campert actor

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Bart Chabot actor Adriaan Van Dis actor Peter Faber actor Philip Freriks actor Tygo Gernandt actor Hanneke Groenteman actor

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Boris van der Ham actor

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Ingmar Heytze actor Isa Hoes actor Marc-Marie Huijbregts actor