Het gangstermeisje

Summary

Frans Weisz's first feature film, based on a script by Remco Campert, inspired by an idea developed by Weisz, Campert and Jan Blokker.

The success of the young writer Wessel Franken's latest novel, 'Illusion is a Gangster Girl', is so great that he receives a request from a film studio in Rome to adapt it for the screen.

This request and the invitation to come to Rome to watch the film's production come at just the right moment for Wessel Franken. As a writer he feels that he is to some extent stagnating and at the same time his marriage is beginning to show signs of tedium and staleness. A temporary change of surroundings, a new context in which to work could well provide a solution to his difficulties. The writer tries to come to terms with himself, first in Menton in the South of France then in Rome. There, while the film is being completed, he realises that for him life will always be strewn with complications and irritations, and that evasion tactics will not help him to deal with them. On reaching this conclusion, he returns to Amsterdam.

Two Italian actors, Paolo Graziosi en Gian-Maria Volonté, play the male leads: their voices were dubbed. Kitty Courbois plays the intriguing gangster girl.