When Grandpa Cor has to take care of his grandson Coentje, he gets tempted to participate in a card tournament and loses track of Coentje. His daughter Carola is furious and forbids her father from having any further contact with his grandson
Freek de Jonge intends to stage one last magnificent show, to once again draw in the crowd. The performance of his life, in which he confronts various painful events, descending to the depths of his soul. This way he hopes to rekindle the drive of thirty years ago: has he done things right, will he...
For almost half a century an old man has been the warden of a bird sanctuary on a tiny island in the middle of the ocean. One day he receives notice that his posting will be discontinued. His happy life alongside nature is about to come to an abrupt end. But the warden refuses to accept his...
Job Kribbe is the first clown in six generations who is not by nature funny. In his search for the reason why he follows a path that takes him from one story to the next, visiting cities lijke Moscow, Paris, London, Hollywood, Berlin and finally Zwanowice. On the road he meets many figures like...
The portrait of Grandma Lientje, which hung prominently in the living room, made Hella realize at an early age that there was great sadness behind it. No wonder that precisely that painting has become the starting point of a documentary about her remarkable creative resilience.
From March to June 1983, the Dutch comedian Freek de Jonge performed his fifth solo performance: De mythe ('The myth'). In the programme booklet he included the following quote from Polish-British anthropologist Bronislaw Malinowski: 'Myth as it exists in a savage community, that is in its living...
