''Bolletjes Blues'' (''Gangsta Blues'', also known as ''Bling!'') is a 2006 Dutch

musical film Musical film is a film genre in which songs by the Character (arts), characters are interwoven into the narrative, sometimes accompanied by dancing. The songs usually advance the plot or develop the film's characters, but in some cases, they serv ...

with Negativ as the main character, Spike.

Plot

Spike is a young black man from

Suriname Suriname, officially the Republic of Suriname, is a country in northern South America, also considered as part of the Caribbean and the West Indies. It is a developing country with a Human Development Index, high level of human development; i ...

who lives in the

Bijlmermeer The Bijlmermeer (), or colloquially the Bijlmer (), is a neighborhood in the Amsterdam-Zuidoost borough ( Dutch: ''stadsdeel'') in Amsterdam, Netherlands. The other neighborhoods in Amsterdam-Zuidoost are Gaasperdam, Bullewijk, Venserpolder and ...

. He is a student first, but drops out. In order to have enough money to impress his white girlfriend Rosalie ( Sophie van Oers) he joins a gang led by Delano ( SugaCane) and commits various robberies. A related gang operates a

cocaine Cocaine is a tropane alkaloid and central nervous system stimulant, derived primarily from the leaves of two South American coca plants, ''Erythroxylum coca'' and ''Erythroxylum novogranatense, E. novogranatense'', which are cultivated a ...

smuggling Smuggling is the illegal transportation of objects, substances, information or people, such as out of a house or buildings, into a prison, or across an international border, in violation of applicable laws or other regulations. More broadly, soc ...

route from Suriname to the

Netherlands , Terminology of the Low Countries, informally Holland, is a country in Northwestern Europe, with Caribbean Netherlands, overseas territories in the Caribbean. It is the largest of the four constituent countries of the Kingdom of the Nether ...

with mules swallowing cocaine pellets. As a mule, Spike is arrested on departure from

Johan Adolf Pengel International Airport Johan Adolf Pengel International Airport , also known as Paramaribo-Zanderij International Airport, and locally referred to simply as JAP, is an airport located in the town of Zanderij and hub for airline carrier Suriname Airways, Surinam Airway ...

(Zanderij) near

Paramaribo Paramaribo ( , , ) is the capital city, capital and largest city of Suriname, located on the banks of the Suriname River in the Paramaribo District. Paramaribo has a population of roughly 241,000 people (2012 census), almost half of Suriname's p ...

, and incarcerated at Santo Boma prison. Rosalie volunteers as mule also, in order to be able to visit Spike. The film ends after this visit, it does not show whether she actually swallows and smuggles cocaine pellets.

Cast

Negativ Maurits Robert Delchot better known by his stage name Negativ (born 8 September 1982) is a Dutch rapper, actor and radio broadcaster of Surinamese origin from Amsterdam-Oost. Negativ became part of the rap formation D-Men. He has also acted f ...

as Spike * Sophie van Oers as Rosalie * SugaCane as Delano *

Raymzter Raymond Christiaan Rensen a.k.a. Raymzter (born 1979 in Almere) is a Dutch rapper. Biography Raymzter was born in Almere to a Moroccan father and a Dutch mother. He developed an interest in hip hop early in life after listening to a Public Enemy ...

as Musu * Mr. Probz as Jimmy * Adigun Arnaud as Shed Block Thug *

Kimo KIMO (107.3 FM, "The Mighty Mo 107FM") is a commercial radio station located in Townsend, Montana and serves the Helena area. KIMO airs a country music Country (also called country and western) is a popular music, music genre originating ...

as Fred * Derenzo Sumter as Melvin * Goldie as Zamira *

Salah Edin Abid Tounssi, known by his stage name Salah Edin (born 23 June 1980), is a Dutch Moroccan ex-rapper and actor. Biography Salah Edin gained recognition as a rapper (first in Arabic, then also in Dutch) in the 1990s and broke through to a larger au ...

as Abid Tounssi * MC Aldrin as Beatboxer * Verginia Olijfveld as Tante Jennifer * Reina Linger as Manuela * Mike Reus as Meester Kees * Glenn Durfort as Ome edje

Reception

''CineMagazine'' rated the film 2 stars. ''VPRO Cinema'' rated the film 3 stars.(Dutch
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References

External links

* Dutch musical films 2006 films 2006 musical films {{musical-film-stub