Keetje Tippel

Summary

Keetje Tippel (Cathy Tippel) is a historical character, who lived in Amsterdam during the 19th century.

Keetje came from the northern province of Frisia, with her father, mother and small sisters. Continually beset by difficulties, she succeeds in working her way up from extreme poverty, to eventually find romance and wealth. Forced into prostitution by her mother, in later life she proves more than a match for the men in her life.

The film endeavoured to make a version of the histoire intime of Neel Doff as visually attractive as possible. Doff, when she was a rich Belgian widow, wrote a number of novels which paid a great deal of attention to working-class life in Amsterdam, which included great hardship, and for women, the threat of prostitution.

Information

original title
Keetje Tippel
production year
1975
censorship date
27-02-1975
first screening
06-03-1975
country
Netherlands
geographical names
category
Fiction
keywords
applicant inspection
dutch rental (original)
producer
production company

Images

Cast

Actor

Crew

Technical notations

original length
2890
censorship length
2890
sound
Sound
colour
Colour
format
35mm
acts
6

Resources

Centrale Commissie voor de Filmkeuring (Nationaal Archief; T182)

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