My Queen Karo

My Queen Karo

A young girl witnesses the moral dilemmas of free love when her parents join a squatter community in 1970s Amsterdam.

2009 · 101 min · ★ 5.0 · Drama

Nine-year-old Karo grows up with her parents in an Amsterdam commune in the Seventies. She leads a carefree existence in this utopia-for-adults. Everything is shared in the squat, but not everyone is able to honor these ideals. Karo gets confused because of the internal conflicts that start to divide the group. Karo slowly realizes that nothing can stay the same forever.

Directed by Dorothée Van Den Berghe · Written by Dorothée Van Den Berghe

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