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This film set in the world of the circus marks the debut of Karst van der Meulen.

Five children put together an acrobat number, but the circus director will not even allow them to perform for him. While they wander the circus grounds,...

Social drama around a street urchin who kills his mother in a fit of anger.

Ciske de Rat brought the first two instalments of Piet Bakker’s famous trilogy about Amsterdam street urchin Ciske Vrijmoet to the screen.

Ciske’s...

Due to the many distribution problems surrounding his experimental The Obolus, film-maker Rik Kuypers opted for a more commercially attractive venture. Adieu Filippi (the second Belgo-Dutch co-production after The Enernies) was never completed as...

Comical children’s film adapted from a well-known book by C. Joh. Kievit. Scoundrel Dik Trom twice comes to the aid of an old woman in his village.

Dik Trom collects money for Oude Kee, a poor, elderly woman in his village. With the money...

1975 not only saw the release of Chantal Akermans subversive Jeanne Dielman, but also witnessed the Flemish film and media world on tenterhooks at the prospect of the adaptation of one of the most important post-war Flemish novels: the best-...

Screen version of Antoon Coolen’s regional novel about a strong headed village doctor.

In around 1900 Tjerk van Taeke sets up a medical practice in a small village in the southern province of Brabant. The local poor appreciate his help but...

Two Dutch comedians (Johnny Kraaijkamp sr and Piet Römer) spread their wings and fly off into the Dutch countryside, moving through a kind of rural Never-Never Land.

The well-known actors play a couple of old friends who, after meeting...