Marlies Heuer

A woman living in a large country home drives her servants to mutiny with her outrageous demands as she waits for death to come for her. (imdb)

The central character in Rooksporen is a woman who finds herself facing an interrogator. Around these interrogation scenes are scenes in which 26 witnesses (from A to Z) are introduced: first in their houses and then in a space adjacent to the interrogation room. (imdb)

A Kurdish asylum seeker who is a poet and a member of the Kurdish Marxist Leninist Front can not escape the long arm of the Turkish government in The Netherlands. They submit a request for extradition, because he would have shot two Turkish soldiers. The practically-minded Dutch fear unrest among the Turkish communities in Dutch cities and decide that the intelligence agency should hunt him down.

"In Our Jordaan" is a Dutch miniseries from 2000, directed by Willem van de Sande Bakhuyzen. The series is based on the biography "De zon schijnt voor iedereen" (The Sun Shines for Everyone) about Johnny Jordaan, written by Bert Hiddema. It was adapted into a three-part series with episodes lasting 50 minutes each, edited by Kees Prins and Frank Ketelaar.

The protagonist in the film is an actor (René van het Hof) who is acting his life. He is a nuisance, but only for those who have had enough of his play acting or who are ashamed to be around this clown. His wife breaks up with him because she just can’t tolerate the man any more and he seems to accept that in an apparently matter-of-fact way. He leaves the city for a cottage in the countryside.

The film is adapted from a play by Cyrille Offermans Lichtenberg, scenes at the dawn of a new era”. The result is not an interplay between fact and fiction, but a sort of view of Lichtenberg, mouthing some 19th- and 20th- century authors he couldn’t have known, strictly speaking, but whose alleged fantastic formulations seem to follow from his own writings in a natural way. (Letterboxd)