Fons Rademakers
Alphonse Marie "Fons" Rademakers (5 September 1920 – 22 February 2007) was a Dutch actor, film director, film producer and screenwriter. His 1960 film Makkers Staakt uw Wild Geraas was entered into the 11th Berlin International Film Festival, where it won the Silver Bear Award. During a career spanning several decades he directed 11 films, including The Assault, which won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1986, and The Village on the River, nominated for the same award in 1959. Making him both the first Dutch director to be nominated and win this award. He granted a wide-ranging interview to Radio Netherlands in 1987. He died in 2007 in a Geneva hospital of emphysema, after the life-support machines were switched off at his request.
Mysteries
as Chief ConstableIn the winter of 1891 a stranger arrives in a small coastal town on the Isle of Man. His...
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Daughters of Darkness
as MotherOstend, Belgium. In a decadent seaside hotel, Stefan and Valerie, a newlywed couple, meet the...
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Katie Tippel
as KlantIn the late 19th century, a young woman moves to Amsterdam with her family and tries to make a...
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Obsessions
as Raoul OrlovA young medical student observes his neighbour's love life through a hole in his apartment wall.
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Mira
as NotarisThe story of a small and conservative West-Flemish village opposing the construction of a bridge...
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Hollywood by Bike
as HimselfDocumentary that looks back at 35 years of Dutch cinema, with Paul Verhoeven and others.
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The Enemies
as WillyThe tribulations of an American GI during the Ardennes offensive and the people he encounters,...
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Lifespan
as Prof. van ArpCult icon Klaus Kinski features in this dark and intriguing existential thriller. He plays the...
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All Rebels
as uncreditedAll Rebels paints a picture of the young people who congregated around Amsterdam’s Leidseplein...
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Arsène Lupin
as MullenArsène Lupin is a French TV show which was co-produced with German, Canadian, Belgian, Dutch,...
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