Wim Verstappen

Directing

Biography

Wim Verstappen was a Dutch film director and producer, television director, and screenwriter. Verstappen grew up in Curaçao. He began studies at the Netherlands Film and Television Academy in 1961, and released his first movie in 1966, De minder gelukkige terugkeer van Joszef Katus naar het land van Rembrandt.

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IJdijk

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a man with a moped and groups of boys (one in particular) are in conflict, which sometimes turns into erotic play.

That's It!

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In 1980 film writer Ruud den Drijver goes head to head with two notorious Dutch film directors, Paul Verhoeven and Wim Verstappen, passionate film makers, competitors and colleagues in a free for all heated discussion ranging (among other subjects) from oral sex to the art of motion pictures. 25 years later the confrontation is continued during the Cannes Film Festival. In the meantime Wim Verstappen has died a year earlier and Paul Verhoeven has returned from a brilliant career in the States. Paul is still very outspoken. He talks freely about the present-day neo-conservative policies of America, and about the situation in Hollywood and his work. THAT'S IT!!(English title)(1980-2005) is a retrospective view on the careers of two driven film directors and is a hilarious time document larded with passionate statements.

Hollywood by Bike

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Documentary that looks back at 35 years of Dutch cinema, with Paul Verhoeven and others.

Skoop

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Portrait from 1964 of the editors of the film magazine Skoop, founded in 1963. Portrait from 1964 of the editors of the film magazine Skoop, founded in 1963. Pim de la Parra, Wim Verstappen, Rob du Mée, Nicolai van der Heyde, Rein Bloem, and Gied Jaspars give their opinion on Dutch film and how Skoop aims to improve the Dutch film climate. Joris Ivens also speaks, applauding the initiative of the young filmmakers/editors.

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Skoop

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Heart Beat Fresco

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Nervous poet wrestles with everyday utensils. His clumsy movements also cause trouble in bed.

Pastorale 1943

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In a Dutch village during the German occupation, a small group of badly organized resistance fighters attempt to assassinate a collaborator.

Pastorale 1943

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In a Dutch village during the German occupation, a small group of badly organized resistance fighters attempt to assassinate a collaborator.

The Rattle Rat

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A rich Frisian farmer has been murdered in Amsterdam and police duo Grijpstra & De Gier are sent to investigate. Adjutant Grijpstra has problems at home again and is happy to leave for Friesland to investigate the murder. Sgt. De Gier finds the Frisian Hylke much more interesting than the murder case. In Leeuwarden there is a real Chinese war and a brutal robbery at the cattle market. Suddenly there is that friendly rattling, asthmatic rat who provides an unexpected solution.

Fatal Error

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Detectives Grijpstra and De Gier are sent to investigate the case of a man who apparently hanged himself in a center for oriental meditation. It is ruled as suicide and the case seems to be closed, but the same night there is an attempted break in. The investigation hits a dead end and everyone involved is a suspect. Based on the book "The Corpse in the Haarlemmer Houttuinen” by Jan-Willem van de Wetering.

The Forbidden Bacchanal

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Film adaptation of the novel of the same name by Simon Vestdijk from 1968. During a dinner with the Van der Laan family, memories are reminisced about previous parties that ended in orgy-like scenes.

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The Forbidden Bacchanal

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One People

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Back in his native Suriname to see his dying mother, an Afro-Surinamese student from the Netherlands’ former colony finds himself torn between his Amsterdam-based life with his white Dutch girlfriend and a future in his newly independent homeland when he falls for a local Hindostani nurse.

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One People

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