Pieter Kruis is invited to America by an old school friend. But he misses the ship and ends up stranded in Rotterdam. When the ship sank, his brothers believed him dead. Comfort offers Pieters life insurance, and also the daughter of the friend who arrives to stand by the family. Meanwhile Pieter sets off on the long way home … Turbulent comedy with wonderful Holland imagery.

Introduction: Ivo Blom

Musical Accompaniment:Daan van den Hurk

Der Beitrag Hurra! Ich lebe! erschien zuerst auf cinefest.de.

A summer guest forces his way into the previously harmonious married life of Endrik and Elske Seetegast. Film adaptation of the novella by Hermann Sundermann, in which the Dutch star Frits van Dongen plays the big fisherman between two women, following National Socialist ideology Shortly afterwards van Dongen went to Hollywood, where he worked from then on as Philip Dorn.

Introduction: Ivo Blom

Der Beitrag Die Reise nach Tilsit erschien zuerst auf cinefest.de.

Touching drama about Jewish artist Charlotte Salomon, who – while in exile in France – did draw a colorful “storyboard” of her life in Berlin with her famous gouache cycle “Leben? OderTheater? Ein Singespiel”. In 1943, she, 26 years old and five months pregnant, was murdered in Auschwitz-Birkenau, while her father and stepmother managed to escape to the Netherlands.

Introduction: Rommy Albers

Der Beitrag Charlotte erschien zuerst auf cinefest.de.

The biopic, superbly photographed by cameraman Richard Angst, shows the painter as a genius unrecognized by his environment, who sinks lonely into a depression. Hans Steinhoff directed the film in his series of portraits of great, controversial leaders popular in Nazi cinema. The film was shot in Berlin as well as in the occupied studios in Amsterdam and The Hague.

Introduction: Ivo Blom

Der Beitrag Rembrandt erschien zuerst auf cinefest.de.

The script for this co-production was written with the collaboration of Martin Scorsese. Behind a painting, Nils Janssen discovers a hole through which he observes disturbing hustle and bustle in the neighboring apartment: Women are abused under drugs and disappear. Thrilling Hitchcock homage, spiced with European licentiousness and Amsterdam’s Sixties flair.

Introduction: Rommy Albers

Der Beitrag Obsessions (Besessen – Das Loch in der Wand) erschien zuerst auf cinefest.de.

Like many graduates of the Film Academy Potsdam-Babelsberg, in 1968 DEFA gave Rainer Simon the chance to prove himself first as a director of a fairy tale film. Based on the Grimm fairy tale “The wise farmer’s daughter”, he created a unique mixture of realism and fantasy. In the leading roles he cast the actor couple Cox Habbema and Eberhard Esche.

See also: Rainer Simon in conversation with Hans-Michael Bock (Balkongespräche)

Der Beitrag Wie heiratet man einen König erschien zuerst auf cinefest.de.

Like many graduates of the Film Academy Potsdam-Babelsberg, in 1968 DEFA gave Rainer Simon the chance to prove himself first as a director of a fairy tale film. Based on the Grimm fairy tale “The wise farmer’s daughter”, he created a unique mixture of realism and fantasy. In the leading roles he cast the actor couple Cox Habbema and Eberhard Esche.

Introduction: Hans-Michael Bock

Additional screening: 21 November 2020, 14:30 in Alabama Cinema

Der Beitrag Wie heiratet man einen König erschien zuerst auf cinefest.de.

The script for this co-production was written with the collaboration of Martin Scorsese. Behind a painting, Nils Janssen discovers a hole through which he observes disturbing hustle and bustle in the neighboring apartment: Women are abused under drugs and disappear. Thrilling Hitchcock homage, spiced with European licentiousness and Amsterdam’s Sixties flair.

Introduction: Jeroen van Kempen

In Cooperation with Bizarre Cinema

Additional screening: 15 November 2020, 20:00 in Alabama Cinema

Der Beitrag Obsessions (Besessen – Das Loch in der Wand) erschien zuerst auf cinefest.de.

Like many graduates of the Film Academy Potsdam-Babelsberg, in 1968 DEFA gave Rainer Simon the chance to prove himself first as a director of a fairy tale film. Based on the Grimm fairy tale “The wise farmer’s daughter”, he created a unique mixture of realism and fantasy. In the leading roles he cast the actor couple Cox Habbema and Eberhard Esche.

Additional screening: 22 November 2020, 17:00, Metropolis Cinema

Der Beitrag Wie heiratet man einen König erschien zuerst auf cinefest.de.

Obsessions (Besessen – Das Loch in der Wand)
NL/BRD 1968/69. Dir: Pim de la Parra. 90 min. Original with German subtitles
With Alexandra Stewart, Dieter Geissler, Tom van Beek, Fons Rademakers

The script for this co-production was written with the collaboration of Martin Scorsese. Behind a painting, Nils Janssen discovers a hole through which he observes disturbing hustle and bustle in the neighboring apartment: Women are abused under drugs and disappear. Thrilling Hitchcock homage, spiced with European licentiousness and Amsterdam’s Sixties flair.

Additional performance: 15 November 2020, 14:00, Metropolis Cinema

Der Beitrag Obsessions (Besessen – Das Loch in der Wand) erschien zuerst auf cinefest.de.