Twee jongens en een oude auto

Summary

Children’s film about two boys who a travelling around in South America in a battered old car.

Two Dutch boys find themselves in the middle of a revolution in an unspecified South American country. When the local population is threatened by a killer disease, the two boys set out to find a cure in the jungle. The film was shot entirely on location in Limburg.

Self-taught director Henk van der Linden is regarded as the pioneer of the Dutch children’s film. He made some forty feature length films between 1952 and 1985, often based on popular children’s books and cartoons such as ‘De avonturen van Dik Trom’ (Dik Trom’s adventures), ‘Sjors en Sjimmie’ (George and Jimmy) and ‘Billy Turf’ (Billy Bunter). Van der Linden not only directed, produced and edited the film, he also wrote the screenplay, designed the sets and worked behind the camera.