Pieter Verhoeff

Young Tiuri has to pass the final test before before being knighted by king Dagonaut. He has to pass a night in the chapel, what is suddenly disturbed by a strangers request of help. With his decision to help the stranger, Tiuri abandons his given task and starts ...  (more)

In 1928 in the northern part of the Netherlands, a man has an affair with the wife of one of his friends (who is in jail at the time). Because she abandons her children to move in with him, the police are sent to arrest her. This leads to a dramatic confrontation.  (more)

The story of a summer dress and those who have to do with it, especially the train conductor (played by van Warmerdam, the director). The dress functions as catalyst for the whimsical events, which turns out to be either tragic or hilarious.  (more)

October 1997. Paul Winters (35) is deputy public prosecutor in Arnhem and is working on his first major case: an investigation in to the allegations of a Bosnian girl that she was raped by three soldiers in the Dutch UN contingent and whose brother is alleged to ...  (more)

Alternating comedy and drama this portrait of different families on three floors in an Amsterdam building where the stairs symbolizes the suffering of known urban living alongside each other. Upstairs live two students, including the failed and unemployed singer ...  (more)

On the turn of the 20th century, in Netherlands, three socialist activists and brothers are imprisoned for a crime they didn't commit. The prosecutor tries to get to the truth, but their comrades and others betray them.  (more)

Frisian-spoken costume drama about the turbulent marriage between a writer and a socialist politician.  (more)

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

A dreamy boy's coming of age story in a small town situated on the IJsselmeer around 1950.  (more)

By alternating documentary with fiction, a portrait is drawn of Peter van Straaten, eminent draughtsman of political cartoons, the long-term Parool serial Agnes and a countless series of painfully comical sketches of everyday life. Interviews with Van Straaten - ...  (more)

After 36 years, Pieter Verhoeff and Gerben Hellinga revisit the parents of Rudy Schokker, the baby who cried with the sound of a jet engine.  (more)

Fake documentary, inspired by Igor Stravinsky's text “Noise pollution not only transforms nature, but also its ruler, Man”. The director and scriptwriter wonder to what extent man is capable of adapting to the abundant noise he is exposed to. At the centre of the ...  (more)

A portrait about the Dutch writer Herman Koch. Koch started his career with the popular TV-show 'Jiskefet' and went on to become the best selling and most translated writer from the Netherlands  (more)

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Since its release in 2005, Jan Siebelink's novel Kneeling on a Bed of Violets , dealing with his father's pitch-black Calvinism, has strongly stirred up - Christian - emotions across the nation. 'The book has become a phenomenon', the publisher said at the ...  (more)