Elckerlyc
Summary
This film adaptation of the medieval morality play ‘Den Spiegel der Salighijt van Elckerlijc’ (Everyman) was filmed in Het Gravensteen, a 13th century castle in the Belgian town of Ghent.
During the summer of 1974, two hundred people went for a three-week stay at the castle, taking four large lorries full of costumes and decors with them. None of them were professional actors, as it was Jos Stelling's ideal to produce films with ordinary people in the cast, in the manner of the medieval plays.
The cast and production crews did not receive any form of salary, but shared in what profits were made, just as with Stelling's previous film Mariken van Nieumeghen.
Information
original title
Elckerlyc
alternative title
Elckerlijc
production year
1975
censorship date
12-11-1975
country
Netherlands
category
Fiction
genre
applicant inspection
director
original distributor
producer
production company
Images
Cast
Actor
- Elckerlyc
- Girl
- de Vette
- Father
- Elckerlyc's wife
- Fool
- Executioner
- Rich man
- Monk
- Quack
- Mother
- Artist
Crew
- Electrician
- Special effects
- Art director
- Costume assistant
- Costume assistant
- Make-up
- Camera
- Best boy
- Best boy
- Best boy
- Editing
- Assistant camera
- Title design
- Assistant art director
- Assistant art director
- Assistant art director
- Still photographer
- Production assistant
- Production assistant
- Assistant props
- Set dresser
- Director
- Producer
- Production manager
- Assistant production manager
- Sound
- Director's assistent
- Director's assistent
- Scriptgirl
- Costume design
Technical notations
runtime
90
original length
2608
censorship length
2608
sound
Sound
colour
Colour
format
35mm
acts
6
Resources
Centrale Commissie voor de Filmkeuring (Nationaal Archief; T775)