How to be a man
How to be a man
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How to be a man

2019
1 season
6 episodes

What is it like to be a man in a country that has lost the war? What is it like to be a man in a country where sex is taboo not only for women but also for men? What's it like to be an old-fashioned playboy in the twenty-first century? And what is it like to be a macho man and to be constantly taunted and insulted? Margriet van der Linden looks for answers to these questions in an attempt to understand today's man.

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Seasons

  • Mexico

    1.Mexico

    05-11-201940m

    Margriet van der Linden is in the northern border area of Mexico, the cradle of machismo, but also an area where drug gangs hold sway. What is it like to be a man in one of the mos...

  • Egypt

    2.Egypt

    12-11-201940m

    What is it like to be a man in a country where sex is taboo? Margriet van de Linden is in Egypt, where sex before marriage is prohibited for women and men. More than 90% of all gir...

  • United States

    3.United States

    19-11-201940m

    What is it like to be a black man in the Deep South of the United States? Margriet van der Linden meets fathers and sons. Who are the role models here? What should a black father t...

  • Ep 4

    4.Serbia

    26-11-201940m
  • England

    5.England

    03-12-201940m

    Margriet van der Linden spends a week at a typical English football club. The players have to work hard, because they don't earn enough to live from football. Everyone has one or t...

  • Switzerland

    6.Switzerland

    10-12-201939m

    The good, the bad and the confused guy, they are all covered. Margriet van der Linden speaks to the last living playboy of Gstaad, Switzerland, the Man Squad in Ghent, Belgium, and...

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