'Fucking Hell". The Story of Truus Oldenburg

'Fucking Hell". The Story of Truus Oldenburg

2018

1970 – 2020

Movie about Truus Oldenburg.

In 2018, Truus Oldenburg and professional writer Renate Guitink published the life story of Truus, who was then a woman of 58 years old and living in Amsterdam. In her unique memoires Fucking Hell - one of very few autobiographical writings by women on their experiences with heroin and cocaine in the 1970s and 1980s - she writes about her childhood in a small town near Amsterdam, in a family where emotions were not shared and physical abuse was a common occurrence. Truus believed her mom and dad knew about the sexual abuse she suffered since she was 11 years old, by someone they knew - but this was never talked about either. In 1974, at 14 years of age, Truus ran away from home with her boyfriend, who she met in a local dancing and fell in love with. He turned out to be a ‘loverboy’ (pimp) and rented a room for her in the Red Light District of Amsterdam, at the Geldersekade. There, she was supposed to earn some money for the both of them, through prostitution.

heroin

Amsterdam

movie

16 min

Dutch