My Queen Karo

Name: My Queen Karo
Genre: Drama
Released: 2009-10-28
Duration: 101 min
Cast: Nico Sturm, Maria Kraakman, Cezanne Q. Cuypers, Matthias Schoenaerts, Anna Franziska Jäger

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

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Release Date

10/28/2009

Runtime

101 mins

Genres

Drama

Overview

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.

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Original Language

Dutch

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A child's-eye view of paradise cracking under pressure, watching innocent wonder collide with the messy reality of adults trying to live their ideals. The film moves quietly from carefree to unsettled as Karo discovers that utopias are fragile.