Fons Rademakers
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Biography: Alphonse Marie "Fons" Rademakers (5 September 1920 – 22 February 2007) was a Dutch actor, film director, film producer and screenwriter. His 1960 film Makkers Staakt uw Wild Geraas was entered into the 11th Berlin International Film Festival, where it won the Silver Bear Award. During a career spanning several decades he directed 11 films, including The Assault, which won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1986, and The Village on the River, nominated for the same award in 1959. Making him both the first Dutch director to be nominated and win this award. He granted a wide-ranging interview to Radio Netherlands in 1987. He died in 2007 in a Geneva hospital of emphysema, after the life-support machines were switched off at his request.
Department: Directing
Place of Birth: Roosendaal, Netherlands
Birthday: September 05, 1920
Deathday: February 22, 2007
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Gender: Male
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Vrijdag
Overview: Hugo Claus rewrote and directed Friday as the cinematic version of his original 1969 play of the same name. Just as in the play, the story begins with the theme of incest, as the father Georges (Frank Aendenboom) returns from serving his jail sentence for that crime. Unlike the earlier play, however, the film does not emphasize that aspect of the story. When Georges gets home he finds out that his wife Jeanne (Kitty Courbois) has had an illegitimate child by a younger man, Erik (Herbert Flack), and now both of them must somehow try to return to a normal life, given their only too obvious lapses in moral judgment. As the husband and wife try hard to accommodate each other's failings and start to get to know each other again, Erik comes back into the picture. Now the three of them must resolve the deep-seated conflicts that brought them to this emotionally-wrought juncture of love and betrayal.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1981-03-07
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Daughters of Darkness
Overview: Ostend, Belgium. In a decadent seaside hotel, Stefan and Valerie, a newlywed couple, meet the mysterious Countess Báthory and Ilona, her secretary.
Genres: Drama Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-10-02
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Mira
Overview: The story of a small and conservative West-Flemish village opposing the construction of a bridge over the Scheldt.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1971-03-04
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All Rebels
Overview: All Rebels paints a picture of the young people who congregated around Amsterdam’s Leidseplein square in the days before wider protest movements broke out in the late ’60s and the ’70s. They kicked against the powers that be through wild parties, jazz music, unconventional clothing, long hair, smoking marihuana, uninhibited dancing and free love.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1983-11-03
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The Enemies
Overview: The tribulations of an American GI during the Ardennes offensive and the people he encounters, keeps you riveted all the way through the unexpected ending. Great characters in a cold and snowy Belgium.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1968-09-05
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Mysteries
Overview: In the winter of 1891 a stranger arrives in a small coastal town on the Isle of Man. His presence soon disturbs the lives of the local inhabitants, especially the beautiful daughter of the parson.
Genres: Mystery Drama
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1978-09-07
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Obsessions
Overview: A young medical student observes his neighbour's love life through a hole in his apartment wall.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1969-08-15
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Hollywood by Bike
Overview: Documentary that looks back at 35 years of Dutch cinema, with Paul Verhoeven and others.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1993-01-01
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Katie Tippel
Overview: In the late 19th century, a young woman moves to Amsterdam with her family and tries to make a living. Preyed upon by various men, she nonetheless rises in society.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1975-03-06
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Lifespan
Overview: Cult icon Klaus Kinski features in this dark and intriguing existential thriller. He plays the mysterious "Swiss Man" - ruthless industrialist Nicolas Ulrich - who is obsessed with a search for the elixir of life. He tricks a young American scientist into joining him on his demonic quest. A quest that ends in suicide, death and madness. The story takes place in the atmospheric European city of Amsterdam. Its winding alleys and ancient canals trap the characters in a labyrinthine maze as they find themselves manipulated like figures on a giant chess board.
Genres: Drama Thriller Science Fiction Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-09-05
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Aah... Tamara
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Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1965-01-01
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