Sonny Boy

Sonny Boy

United by love, torn by fate

2011 · 130 min · ★ 6.5 · Drama, Romance, War

Waldemar Nods, a young man from Suriname, meets the older Dutch woman Rika van der Lans and they fall in love. In pre-WWII Netherlands they could not be more different. The one black, the other white, 17 years between them and on top of that Rika already has four children with another man. They love each other, but then Rika appears to be pregnant.

Directed by Maria Peters · Written by Pieter Van de Waterbeemd

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