Gaston Vandermeulen
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The Conscript
1974-02-08
The Conscript
Overview: In 1833, when the fledgling Belgian kingdom still fears a Dutch invasion, recruits were selected annually from an age cohort by a draw of lots in each locality. In this grim, then contemporary drama by the 'father of Flemish literature', Hendrik Conscience, Jan Braems, a poor and naive farmers-boy, accepts the not uncommon offer by a rich family to sell his lucky ticket (out) to their son for a hefty sum compared to the miserable labor wages at the time. Army life is even harsher then a farmhand's, especially for a Dutch-speaking an-alphabet who simply can't understand his francophone superiors, and Jan's nature is not complacent enough for military discipline even by todays standards, so he soon gets into all kinds of trouble, including gambling his capital away and a venereal disease. When his girlfriend back home goes looking for him, her life is doomed as well.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1974-02-08
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Antoon, de flierefluiter
1942-07-01
Antoon, de flierefluiter
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1942-07-01
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Bachelor with 40 children
1958-01-01
Bachelor with 40 children
Overview: Isidoor lives with his niece and a housekeeper in a little provincial town. One day he receives a letter: he is to be the heir of a distant and wealthy relative. There is only one condition: he has to go and live for a year in "Home lux et vita", otherwise he will loose his inheritance. The home is a home for abandoned children and now this bachelor becomes the father to 40 children...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1958-01-01
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The Tale of the Good Murderer
1956-01-01
The Tale of the Good Murderer
Overview: Based on the play of the same tittle by Jos Janssen.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1956-01-01
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What Do We Do With Love?
1957-01-01
What Do We Do With Love?
Overview: Five rather frivolous musicians seize the opportunity to perform on a cruise in the Mediterranean. Alas: they are under contract to engage a female singer - and they fear to fall in love with her, which would endanger their friendship.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1957-01-01
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Fire, Love and Vitamins
1956-01-01
Fire, Love and Vitamins
Overview: A widower is being courted by 3 women, ... .
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1956-01-01
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Het geluk komt morgen
1958-01-01
Het geluk komt morgen
Overview: Each year Thomas goes an a pilgrimage but he has more difficulty to complete it, but then he is offered a footbath that appears to contain a miracle drug. Wouldn't this make a huge seller during Expo 58 in Brussels... .
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1958-01-01
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Rubens, schilder en diplomaat
1977-10-02
Rubens, schilder en diplomaat
Overview: This historical costume drama is a mini-series on the life of Flemish first-rate Baroque painter Pieter Pauwel Rubens (1577-1640), whose artistic success throughout Europe not only made him a fortune allowing him to stock his Antwerp residence ('Rubenshuis' in Dutch) and a castle at Elewijt, in the countryside nearer Brussels, with numerous fashionable treasures, but also became an ennobled diplomat for the Spanish Hapsburg rulers of the Southern Low Countries (now Belgium), who often traveled, for painting commissions and/or diplomatic missions, to and worked in Italy, France, Spain, all Catholic powers, as well as protestant England and the United Provinces (mainly Holland), also allowing him to meet other prominent contemporaries such as artists. It further covers his marriages to Isabella Brandt and Hélène Fourment.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-10-02
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