Executions: The Rise and Fall of Capital Punishment vs Women of Suriname
Women of Suriname is the shorter watch at 55m compared with 1h . Women of Suriname is the older of the two (1978 against 2025). Both are documentary movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Executions: The Rise and Fall of Capital Punishment
Women of Suriname| Executions: The Rise and Fall of Capital Punishment | Women of Suriname | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 10.0/10 | ★ 0.0/10 |
| Year | 2025 | 1978 |
| Length | 1h | 55m |
| Genres | Documentary | Documentary |
| Country | United Kingdom | – |
| Director | Steve Lawson | At van Praag |
| Main cast | Richard Felix, Mark Topping | Bram Behr, Sylvie Fernant, Sonja Boekstaaf, Jetty Meurzing, Rita Rahman |
Synopsis
Executions: The Rise and Fall of Capital Punishment
From ancient practices such as death by a thousand cuts and hanging, drawing and quartering to the modern scientific era of lethal injection, we ask the question: do the most horrific crimes deserve the most horrific of punishments?
Women of Suriname
Oema Foe Sranang (1978), translated in Dutch as Vrouwen van Suriname, was a film made in close collaboration with LOSON (Landelijke Organisatie Strijd Organisatie Suriname). This anti-colonial, feminist portrait of the lives of five Surinamese women came about after the recent independence of Suriname in 1975, also shedding a light on the experience of the Surinamese migrants entering the Netherlands and the Dutch hostile attitude towards this…
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