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Sjors en Sjimmie in het land der reuzen

Children’s film about two popular cartoon heroes who set off to find a rare mineral.

Sjors and Sjimmie travel all the way to Taskara. A rich Chinese man wants them to bring back the rare mineral OQ-4. But Taskara is inhabited by giants and, unfortunately, crooks Boris and Pedro are sniffing around too. The film is the usual Van der Linden mix of humour, excitement and adventure.

Sjors en Sjimmie en de toverring

Children’s film about the well-known Dutch heroes Sjors en Sjimmie who end up in the middle ages by means of a magical ring.

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’, ‘Sjors en Sjimmie’ 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.

Kees, de zoon van de stroper

Children's film about the son of a poacher who is unfairly accused of stealing.

Kees, the son of a poacher, wants to be in the local boys' club but is turned down. He is friends with a painter who lodges with a poor fisherman's wife in a house in the dunes. When the painter goes away on his travels he gives Kees thirty guilders because he is worried about him. Meanwhile the police are after Kees' father who is hiding in a place only the painter, Kees and his friend Jaap know about.

Vrijbuiters van het woud

Dutch children’s film about the children of a duke who are kidnapped.

After Duke Alfons dies, his children are kidnapped by his opponent, the power-hungry Count Diederik. The children find a way to escape, however, and flee to the forest, where new adventures follow…

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