Daan Schuurmans shows himself to be a surprisingly inspired history teacher in The story of the Netherlands

It does take some getting used to. Daan Schuurmans suddenly walks into the picture if you have just settled into the compelling story of a hunting family from prehistoric times. It is not a new feature film from Dutch soil, but a large-scale documentary series by the NTR about ‘the story of our country’. Or, as narrator Schuurmans describes it in his intro text: ‘A story with golden mountains and black pages, which show us who we are and how we have become like that.’

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