Nouchka van Brakel

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Nouchka van Brakel is a Dutch film director known for her 1982 movie Van de koele meren des doods. That movie, and A Woman Like Eve, established her as an important Dutch feminist film director. Van Brakel said that her ambition is to make movies about women who want to change their lives and their societies.

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The DirectorsMOVIE

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The Directors

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In 1984, Ate de Jong, Dick Maas and George Schouten founded The Directors, a band made up of movie directors. Later on, more directors joined and so did actors, actresses and singers. This documentary follows the band members at home, on the set, at rehearsals and during performances. It’s a story of friendship, opposing characters, growing old and ambitions and illusions. Anecdotes and archive films provide a hilarious flashback on the lives of the film friends. Time has treated them well. Everybody is or has been successful. To rough it all up, they decide to write a song that will be played at one of the band member’s funeral.

Joszef Katús's Not Too Fortunate Return to the Land of Rembrandt

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The dutchified Hungarian Joszef Katús returns, after a months-long absence, to Amsterdam on 29 April 1966. The arrival of the Provos changed a great deal in the Dutch capital. The film follows Katús, mostly roaming the streets, in a loose documentary style. The events are set against the backdrop of four national occasions - The Queen's Birthday, Labour Day, Liberation Day and Remembrance Day.

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Joszef Katús's Not Too Fortunate Return to the Land of Rembrandt

Aap, Noot, MiesMOVIE

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Aap, Noot, Mies

Jongens, jongens, wat een meidMOVIE

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Hedwig, a young wealthy woman growing up in the straight-jacket of bourgeois morality in the Victorian era, descends into madness after years of sexual repression and tragedy.

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The Cool Lakes of Death

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The Debut

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The delicate story of the impossible love between an older married man and a fourteen-year old schoolgirl.

Melancholy Tales

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A series of four stories written by the Dutch writer Heere Heeresma, interpreted by four different directors. A confirmed bachelor bumps into his secretary after work. An old man just wants to be left alone at Christmas time. A former sailor yearns to get back to the sea, away from his clarinet playing wife. A shopkeeper in a rowboat gets into an argument with a postman on a bicycle.

Friendship

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Two friends meet again in the autumn of their lives. They have not seen each other for years, but soon find their renewed friendship put to the test when one of them falls ill and the other loses his newfound love.

A Month Later

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Two women decide to exchange lives after getting into contact through a newspaper ad.

A Woman Like Eve

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A devoted yet stressed out housewife takes a holiday to relax, and falls in love with another woman: a guitar-playing hippie who lives in a commune.

The Debut

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The delicate story of the impossible love between an older married man and a fourteen-year old schoolgirl.

The Cool Lakes of Death

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Hedwig, a young wealthy woman growing up in the straight-jacket of bourgeois morality in the Victorian era, descends into madness after years of sexual repression and tragedy.

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The Cool Lakes of Death

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A Month Later

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Two women decide to exchange lives after getting into contact through a newspaper ad.

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A Month Later

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Ave Maria - Van dienstmaagd des heren tot koningin van de hemelMOVIE

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Ave Maria - Van dienstmaagd des heren tot koningin van de hemel

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Mary of Nazarene is one of the most popular female figures of our world's history. When feminist filmmaker and non-believer Nouchka van Brakel saw a painting of Mary, on which she was told that she would give birth to the Messiah, she was struck by Mary's rather reserved expression. Instead of happiness or humble devotion, the look on her face was doubtful. This fascinated Nouchka van Brakel, and led her to make AVE MARIA, a documentary on the one hand about this mythical, particularly beloved woman and on the other hand about her worshippers who make her Queen of Heaven. AVE MARIA portrays the untameable longing of mankind for the Mother of all mothers; from Virgin Mary, to Mother of the Son of God, to Lady of All Nations, to Queen of Heaven. What powerful emotions drive those devoted to Mary? Journeys to Turkey, Poland, Spain and The Netherlands gradually reveal the mystery.... A fascinating quest.

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Ave Maria - Van dienstmaagd des heren tot koningin van de hemel

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