Max Havelaar: or, The Coffee Auctions of the Dutch Trading Company

Sep 9, 1976

2h 50m

★ 6.2

Overview

An idealistic Dutch colonial officer posted to Indonesia in the 19th century is cohvinced that he can make the kinds of changes that will actually help the local people he is in charge of, but circumstances soon make him realize just how out of touch he really is, and it doesn't take long for things to go from bad to worse.

Genres

Drama

History

Production Companies

P.T. Mondial Motion Pictures

Rademakers Productie BV

Jakarta Film

Max Havelaar: or, The Coffee Auctions of the Dutch Trading Company Trailers

Cast

Max Havelaar

Peter Faber

Tine Havelaar

Sacha Bulthuis

Regent

E.M. Adenan Soesilaningrat

Demang

Maruli Sitompul

Controller Verbrugge

Krijn ter Braak

Resident

Carl van der Plas

Mrs Slotering

Rima Melati

Assistent Resident C.E. Pierre Slotering

Joop Admiraal

Djaksa

Pitradjaja Burnama

Saïdjah

Herry Lentho

Adinda

Nenny Zulaini

Inah

Sofia W.D.

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