Ik ga naar Tahiti

Feature film about the last days in the life of Hendrik Nicolaas Werkman, the printer and artist from Groningen who was arrested and shot by the SS in the spring of 1945. The film is not an accurate reconstruction of events, but an attempt to fathom the responsibility of an artist in wartime.During the German occupation Werkman did his best work under very difficult conditions. 'The stronger the enemy, the better my work,' he once said. I am going to Tahiti uses flashbacks of the character Werkman. The other fragments of Chaplin films and from the film The Green Pastures rhyme in a striking way with Werkman's unenviable situation.