Bon Bini Holland | |
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Directed by | Jelle de Jonge |
Produced by | Maarten Swart |
Written by |
Jandino Asporaat Ernst Gonlag Reint Schölvinck |
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Music by | Michiel Marsman |
Cinematography | Joris Kerbosch |
Edited by | Elsbeth Kasteel |
Distributed by | Entertainment One Benelux / Storm Post Production |
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Running time
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85 minutes |
Country | Netherlands |
Language |
Dutch Papiamentu |
Bon Bini Holland is a 2015 Dutch-comedy film produced by Maarten Swart and directed by Jelle de Jonge. Starring co-writer Jandino Asporaat who plays five different characters in the film, and Liliana de Vries. The film premiered in Dutch theaters nationwide on December 10th, 2015
Primarily filmed in Rotterdam, South Holland, a large portion of the movie was filmed in Willemstad, Curaçao in the former Netherlands Antilles, and it features many Dutch celebrities of Surinamese and Curaçaoan descent such as Humberto Tan, Jörgen Raymann and Tania Kross. The film also features the television sketch "FC Kip" from the 'De Dino Show', for which Asporaat is famous for across the Netherlands.
Outside of the Netherlands, the film debuted in Curaçao on 17 January 2016. Asporaat travelled to his place of birth in order to attend the film's premiere. To date the film is the highest attended Dutch film in the Dutch Caribbean of all time. The film is entirely spoken in Dutch, with small portions in Papiamentu, but subtitles are available in English.
The film begins in Curaçao, where slick Antillean Robertico (Asporaat) gets in trouble when he is unable to pay his debt to a mafia boss for a promise he couldn't keep. He flees the island to the Netherlands where he meets business man Ken Maduro (Dennis Rudge). Robertico convinces Ken to invest in vacation homes on Curaçao by the name of 'Bon Bini Bungalows'. After meeting Kens' daughter Noëlla Maduro (Liliana de Vries) and he falls in love, he is no longer sure about scamming her father.