Last Man in Dhaka Central ( The Young Man Was, Part III) (2015, Naeem Mohaiemen)

The third film Last Man in Dhaka Central(2015) is about the Dutch journalist Peter Custers, who was picked up by the new Bangladeshi military regime in 1975. They accused him of being part of an underground Maoist cell. The film is impossible. Custers answers Mohaiemens questions elliptically and with many pauses, as the camera keeps us trapped inside Custers small apartment in Leiden, the Netherlands. The pace is very slow, the memories overshadowed by Custers caution. Decades have gone by and yet Custers is still reluctant to tell the full story of the failed Maoist uprising whether it was to happen or how his role was exaggerated by a wary state. A few months after the films premiere, Custers passed away suddenly an unexpected coda, leaving the film as an unplanned memorial.