Release Date

09 Oct, 1996

Runtime

04:05: (HH:MM)

Synopsis

"I am far away on a distant journey through my own city", filmmaker Johan van der Keuken says at the end of his four-hour portrait of Amsterdam. The city is presented as a place where people from all corners of the world live, who all exert their cultural influence on the life in the city. With a motor courier as his central figure, the filmmaker introduces the audience to birds of different feathers. We see diverse cultural expressions, like the house scene, the entry of St. Nicholas and a Ghanese mourning ritual. The binding factor in the film is the concept of 'travelling', in other words Amsterdam as a global village. The camera travels through the film in three ways: over land, over water (canals) and through the air.

Original Title

Amsterdam Global Village

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Actors

Crew

Johan van der Keuken

Noshka Van der Lely

Dionys Breukers

Johan van der Keuken

Barbara Hin

Johan van der Keuken

Johan van der Keuken