Gerard Thoolen
Biography: Biography not available
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: February 14, 1943
Deathday: October 12, 1996
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A Dry White Season
1989-09-20
A Dry White Season
Overview: During the 1976 Soweto uprising, a white school teacher's life and values are threatened when he asks questions about the death of a young black boy who died in police custody.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-09-20
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Transit
1992-11-19
Transit
Overview: Four illegal Brazilian musicians come to try their luck in dynamic Amsterdam... It will be a survival of the fittest.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1992-11-19
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Hello Fellow Man
1980-01-04
Hello Fellow Man
Overview: TV-adaptation of the performance by the Dutch theatre group 'Het Werkteater'. Three ladies of high society invite homeless people, homeless people and junks to spend a pleasant evening with them, in order to promote communication and integration.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1980-01-04
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Avondrood
1976-11-27
Avondrood
Overview: TV-adaptation of the performance by the Dutch theatre group 'het Werkteater'. A realistic fairy tale about old people in the no man's land between life and death, set in a retirement home.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1976-11-27
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Kattengat 10
1975-04-20
Kattengat 10
Overview: Documentairy about the progressive theatre group 'Het Werkteater' at their home base on Kattengat 10 in Amsterdam.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1975-04-20
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Het Werkteater 1970-1985
1997-09-08
Het Werkteater 1970-1985
Overview: Documentary about the Dutch theatregroup the Werktheater. The aim of the company was to create socially relevant theater by means of cooperative processes and improvisation. They often played their performances on location, such as in hospitals, prisons, healthcare institutions and schools. In this documentary, those involved are interviewed about this remarkable theater group.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1997-09-08
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In for Treatment
1979-01-11
In for Treatment
Overview: An unsuspecting flower farmer visits the hospital to discuss some test results, only to find himself admitted without explanation for an indefinite period of further examination and observation.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1979-01-11
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The Cold Light of Day
1996-08-20
The Cold Light of Day
Overview: A troubled detective befriends a single woman and her daughter with the intention of using them as bait for a serial killer.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-08-20
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The Mark of the Beast
1980-09-25
The Mark of the Beast
Overview: In 1928 in the northern part of the Netherlands, a man has an affair with the wife of one of his friends (who is in jail at the time). Because she abandons her children to move in with him, the police are sent to arrest her. This leads to a dramatic confrontation.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1980-09-25
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My Father Lives in Rio
1989-03-05
My Father Lives in Rio
Overview: Liesje’s parents are divorced. She lives in a nice house with her mother and grandpa. Liesje writes letters to her father who lives in Rio de Janeiro. At least, that’s what her mother has told her. After Liesje’s grandpa passes away, she begins to miss her father more and more. She decides to go visit him in Rio. To get money for the flight, she sells the stamp collection she was given by her grandpa. Without her mother knowing, she boards the plane to Brazil alone – but then she finds out the truth about her father.
Genres: Family
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1989-03-05
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Een vreemde liefde
1990-01-02
Een vreemde liefde
Overview: A lonely man tossed by life and hectored by his landlady finds happiness only with an alley cat.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-01-02
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Private Resistance
1985-01-24
Private Resistance
Overview: Otto, a Jewish refugee who managed to escape from Berlin in the early days of WW2, is now the owner of an Amsterdam ice cream parlor. Otto's place soon becomes a microcosm of the city with its German invaders, Dutch collaborators and anti-fascist resistance groups.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1985-01-24
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The Kingmaker Connection
1983-06-08
The Kingmaker Connection
Overview: The reconstruction of a Dutch political scandal from the 1960s when a PR specialist managed to gain unhealthy influence in government circles. Eventually he became the biggest victim.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1983-06-08
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The Illusionist
1983-01-01
The Illusionist
Overview: Two brothers end up separated for one of them has mental issues. Meanwhile one of the two follows his dream in becoming a magician.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1983-01-01
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The Hes Case
1982-09-23
The Hes Case
Overview: Hes, an uptight and disaffected social worker reaching retirement, discovers a young woman, Anna, in the closet of an acquaintance who has committed suicide. Realizing that she has been kept in the apartment all her life, he moves in and helps her comes to terms with the complexities of the real world.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1982-09-23
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The Flying Dutchman
1995-05-11
The Flying Dutchman
Overview: 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, only harshening the Spanish Inquisition, sparkling the Eighty Years War.
Genres: Fantasy Comedy Drama
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1995-05-11
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Not Mozart: WAM! Limited
1991-11-03
Not Mozart: WAM! Limited
Overview: Composer Misha Mengelberg collaborates with director Anthony Garner on a commissioned short film to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the death of Mozart.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-11-03
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Because of the Cats
1973-03-15
Because of the Cats
Overview: A gang of six wealthy, well-dressed and well-spoken hoodlums break into a married couple's house and rape the wife while forcing the husband to watch. Thus begins a dogged investigation by a determined detective who quickly finds that their cult-like solidarity can be a serious obstacle to breaking them.
Genres: Drama Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-03-15
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A Hot Summer Night
1982-03-11
A Hot Summer Night
Overview: A husband, half of an entertainment duo, the Nellicos, tells his wife, who is the other half of the duo, that he has another woman. But they cannot discuss this as he tells her only just before they are due to perform in front of a large audience. (BFI)
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1982-03-11
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The Lift
1983-05-11
The Lift
Overview: A lift technician finds himself drawn into a web of mystery and peril as he investigates the perplexing deadly accidents occurring in the elevators of a new office building.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction Thriller Fantasy
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1983-05-11
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The Bitter Herb
1985-04-25
The Bitter Herb
Overview: This film is about the Jewish girl Sara and the ruin of her family during World War II. Her parents have to live in the Jewish ghetto in Amsterdam, but later they are arrested and deported. Sara decides to flee with her brother and his girlfriend to Palestine. Based on the book by Marga Minco.
Genres: History
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1985-04-25
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Toestanden
1976-12-22
Toestanden
Overview: "Conditions" - The improvisation-based performance was inspired by psychiatrists such as RD Laing (Family and Madness) and J. Foudraine (Who is of wood). The Werkteater played this performance 'in the den of the lion': in psychiatric institutions for patients and carers. This led to very intensive and adventurous performances in which 'a lot' always happened. Afterwards the discussions sometimes ran high, but even during the performance the audience sometimes mixed themselves in the scenes.
Genres: Drama Documentary
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1976-12-22
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How to Survive a Broken Heart
1991-04-05
How to Survive a Broken Heart
Overview: D.C. has been abandoned by his girlfriend Nola, wants to go to Hollywood and participates in 'chicken races' out of desperation and lack of money; a perilous event in which one travels a certain distance on the road by car without stopping.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1991-04-05
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Count Your Blessings
1987-11-19
Count Your Blessings
Overview: Alternating comedy and drama this portrait of different families on three floors in an Amsterdam building where the stairs symbolizes the suffering of known urban living alongside each other. Upstairs live two students, including the failed and unemployed singer Karin with Harrie and Wouter down with his demented mother.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1987-11-19
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Prospero's Books
1991-08-30
Prospero's Books
Overview: An exiled magician finds an opportunity for revenge against his enemies muted when his daughter and the son of his chief enemy fall in love in this uniquely structured retelling of the 'The Tempest'.
Genres: Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-08-30
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De Zondagsjongen
1992-01-24
De Zondagsjongen
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1992-01-24
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Fien
1985-10-13
Fien
Overview: Four-part musical about the life of Dutch actress Fien de la Mar, chronicling her earliest days on stage with her father, her glory days as a stage and movie star and the building her own theatre, up until the tragic end of her life.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1985-10-13
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Rooie Sien
1975-03-27
Rooie Sien
Overview: After her mother -- a prostitute -- is murdered by her father, Sien is raised by her grandparents. Instead of a bourgeois life with grocer's son Gerrit van Buren, she chooses for an adventurous life with toutman Jan Meier. She follows him and becomes a revue artist in an Amsterdam cabaret, until her father comes to see her...
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1975-03-27
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Heading for England
1992-10-01
Heading for England
Overview: A man from the province looks back on his graduation year, some teachers, the parental home and especially his father.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1992-10-01
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De Schoorsteenveger
1992-03-01
De Schoorsteenveger
Overview: A chimney sweep’s daredevil antics are meant to keep a young woman from jumping off the roof. But does she really want to jump? Or does he maybe? A street sweeper is watching and passes the hat round for our hero. Or is he part of the act too?
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1992-03-01
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Always something different, rarely something good
Always something different, rarely something good
Overview: Orlow Seunke's graduation film is a rural tragedy about an alcoholic father, a tyrannical mother and their weak son. Gerard Thoolen plays the successful brother.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: nl
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