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They Call Me Babu

6.620191h 20mMovieDocumentary

In the 1940s, Alima decides to flee from an arranged marriage to work as a nanny for a Dutch family. Through all her new impressions and thoughts, she looks critically at colonial society and her own position.

DirectorSandra Beerends
WriterSandra Beerends
ProducerPieter van Huijstee

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Cast · Directed by Sandra Beerends

DADenise Aznam
Denise Aznam
Alima (voice)

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