In the 1890s, Father Adolf Daens goes to Aalst, a textile town where child labor is rife, pay and working conditions are horrible Read More »
Tag Archives: Netherlands
Lyrical Nitrate (1991) Peter Delpeut, Lyda Borelli, Henny Porten, Anni Timm, Documentary
This film is a compilation of scenes from silent films made between 1905 and 1915 that sat in storage in an Amsterdam cinema for many years. Read More »
The Look of Silence (2014) Joshua Oppenheimer, Adi Rukun, M.Y. Basrun, Amir Hasan, Documentary, Biography, History
An Indonesian man with a communist background named Ramli was brutally murdered when the “Communist” purge occurred in 1965. Read More »
The Mark of the Beast (1980) Pieter Verhoeff, Gerard Thoolen, Marja Kok, Peter Faber, Drama
In 1928 at the northern portion of the Netherlands, a person has an affair with the wife of a few of the buddies (who’s in prison at the time). Read More »
The Knife (1961) Fons Rademakers, Reitze van der Linden, Marie-Louise Videc, Ellen Vogel, Drama
A young boy coming to starvation is resentful of his mum’s budding love affair with the best friend of her late husband Read More »
The Flying Dutchman (1995) Jos Stelling, René Groothof, Veerle Dobbelaere, René van ‘t Hof, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Late 16th century, persecuted protestantism and general dissatisfaction with the Catholic Habsburg rule in the Netherlands lead to large-scale plundering and vandalizing of churches Read More »
Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould (1993) François Girard, Colm Feore, Derek Keurvorst, Katya Ladan, Biography, Drama, Music
As the title suggests, this dramatised documentary about the eccentric Canadian pianist Glenn Gould is broken up into thirty-two short films Read More »
Interview (2003) Theo van Gogh, Katja Schuurman, Pierre Bokma, Theo Maassen, Drama
A middle-aged journalist interviews the real-life Dutch star Katja Schuurman, in her own loft. Read More »
The Commune (2016) Thomas Vinterberg, Ulrich Thomsen, Trine Dyrholm, Fares Fares, Drama, Family
Erik, a lecturer in architecture, inherits his father’s large old house in Hellerup, north of Copenhagen. Read More »
Pallieter (1976) Roland Verhavert, Eddie Brugman, Jacqueline Rommerts, Sylvia de Leur, Drama, Romance
In this film version of the Dutch-language classic (‘heimat’-)novel by Flemish author Felix Timmermans, the title character is a city-boy from Lier who after recovering from a life-threatening disease changes his life completely and his name to the self-invented Pallieter (the Dutch language has adopted this as a noun for a “bon vivant”). Read More »