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.
Feature film about a couple of rebellious schoolkids who protest against the education system.
Romantic crime film about a chemist who takes on a new identity.
During a row with his housekeeper, village chemist Dekkinga throws an object at her head and mistakenly thinks he has killed her. He flees and when he hitches a ride on a truck, the driver hits and kills a man. The dead man, a certain Van Dieren, bears an uncanny resemblance to Dekkinga who takes on his identity.
A commissioned propaganda film made for the Meelfabrieken der Nederlandse Bakkerijen (the Flour Factories of Dutch Bakeries).
Dramatised documentary about the Dutch resistance during the Second World War.
The German forces have occupied the Netherlands. In spite of promises to respect their way of life, the Dutch are forced to obey the Germans at every turn. The resistance movement begins to organise acts of sabotage such as stealing ration cards and distributing illegal newspapers. The German retaliate without mercy: some resistance fighters are shot, others face arrest. During a daring raid on the prison they are freed.
Rufus forms a threat to the syndicate which rules the gambling world. It makes life difficult for him.
The story of a young man traumatised by the Second World War, based on the novella by W.F. Hermans.
A fairground operator becomes involved in a bitter dispute with a Brabant village priest, who refuses to permit him to re-bury his father in consecrated ground.
Partly staged documentary about post-war life in the Netherlands.
An English filmmaker is commissioned to make a film about the Netherlands but has only seven days to complete it. Helped by a number of friendly Dutch people, he manages to capture the spirit of the country. One of them is stewardess Audrey Hepburn, in her first screen appearance. It was to be her only part in a Dutch film.
A small town in the lean years immediately after the war. A family, the mother of which disappeared during the war in shameful circumstances, lives off the railway.