Bolletjes Blues


Bolletjes Blues is a 2006 Dutch musical film with Negativ as the main character, Spike.

Plot

Spike is a young black man from Suriname who lives in the Bijlmermeer. He is a student first, but drops out. In order to have enough money to impress his white girlfriend Rosalie he joins a gang led by Delano and commits various robberies.
A related gang operates a cocaine smuggling route from Suriname to the Netherlands with mules swallowing cocaine pellets. As a mule, Spike is arrested on departure from Johan Adolf Pengel International Airport near Paramaribo, 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

The film debuted at #8, grossing over €63,196 in its first week. The second week, it dropped to #10, grossing only €41,556 in that week. A total of €104,752 in the Netherlands.