Een koninkrijk voor een huis!

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Summary

Comedy about the post-war housing shortage.

Een koninkrijk voor een huis! is based on the Amsterdam city council’s decision to requisition rooms to house homeless people. Heintje Blom, a simple working woman, is told to move into a villa in a posh part of town. The inhabitants are none too pleased but in spite of the class division, a romance blossoms between the rich family’s son and Heintje’s daughter. The two families warm to each other in the end and the happy pair is united in wedded bliss.

Director Jaap Speyer’s Een koninkrijk voor een huis! marked the return of the feature length Dutch film to the cinemas. Speyer, who had made several comedies before the war, including De Jantjes (The sailor lads), wasted no time in picking up where he had left off. If it weren’t for the film’s subject of post-war housing misery, the terrible events of the last six years might as well not have happened.

The film is full of the same old jokes and japes as the pre-war Jordaan films. The public came to see the film in droves but contrary to De Jantjes, Een koninkrijk voor een huis! didn’t herald a new dawn for Dutch cinema. It would be another ten years before the Dutch film would come into its own again.

Information

original title
Een koninkrijk voor een huis!
foreign release title
Ein Königreich für ein Haus
production year
1949
censorship date
01-03-1949
first screening
11-03-1949
country
Netherlands
geographical names
category
Fiction
applicant inspection
director
original distributor
production company

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Technical notations

runtime
95
original length
2615
censorship length
2615
sound
Sound
colour
Black and white
format
35mm
acts
10

Resources

Centrale Commissie voor de Filmkeuring (Nationaal Archief; R152)

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