Helena Haak

Music in the Harbour (1937)

Frits and Jef are mates on a ship and have been friends for long. Frits, who is the steward, is also engaged to Jef's sister Marieke. When the two men disembark in Antwerp, their birth town, Frits realizes to his shock that a drug runner has hidden his contraband ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Jan Vanderheyden
CAST:  Jef Bruyninckx  •  Nand Buyl  •  Oscar Ferket  •  Helena Haak

Frits and Jef are mates on a ship and have been friends for long. Frits, who is the steward, is also engaged to Jef's sister Marieke. When the two men disembark in Antwerp, their birth town, Frits realizes to his shock that a drug runner has hidden his contraband ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Jan Vanderheyden
CAST:  Jef Bruyninckx  •  Nand Buyl  •  Oscar Ferket  •  Helena Haak

Janssens versus Peeters (1939)

A popular comedy in which the daughter of baker Peeters is set to get married with the son of innkeeper Janssens but then the parents start to argue and are opposed to the marriage but the couple elopes.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Jan Vanderheyden
CAST:  Jef Bruyninckx  •  Nand Buyl  •  Louisa Colpeyn  •  Nini De Boël

A popular comedy in which the daughter of baker Peeters is set to get married with the son of innkeeper Janssens but then the parents start to argue and are opposed to the marriage but the couple elopes.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Jan Vanderheyden
CAST:  Jef Bruyninckx  •  Nand Buyl  •  Louisa Colpeyn  •  Nini De Boël

Janssens en Peeters dikke vrienden (1940)

Sequel to the hugely popular folk comedy Janssens versus Peeters.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Jan Vanderheyden
CAST:  Jef Bruyninckx  •  Nand Buyl  •  Louisa Colpeyn  •  Nini De Boël

Sequel to the hugely popular folk comedy Janssens versus Peeters.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Jan Vanderheyden
CAST:  Jef Bruyninckx  •  Nand Buyl  •  Louisa Colpeyn  •  Nini De Boël

White is Trump (1940)

Liliane Springer, the daughter of Antwerpen office manager, has fallen in love with a football player, Raymond Smet. The trouble is that he is the star player of the Green team whereas her father is dedicated supporter of the White football team. Will love be ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Jan Vanderheyden
CAST:  Renaat Grassin  •  Raymond Braine  •  Toontje Janssens  •  Willy Vervoort

Liliane Springer, the daughter of Antwerpen office manager, has fallen in love with a football player, Raymond Smet. The trouble is that he is the star player of the Green team whereas her father is dedicated supporter of the White football team. Will love be ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Jan Vanderheyden
CAST:  Renaat Grassin  •  Raymond Braine  •  Toontje Janssens  •  Willy Vervoort

Good Luck, Monique! (1941)

Four aspiring young artists live together in the same apartment: Monika wants to be an actress ; Sonny, her sister, studies at the Academy of Fine Arts ; Marina dreams of being a professional dancer ; and Lena hopes to be a singer. One day, Victor and Helena, ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Jan Vanderheyden
CAST:  Vera Bosmans  •  Nand Buyl  •  Marina Candael  •  Louisa Colpeyn

Four aspiring young artists live together in the same apartment: Monika wants to be an actress ; Sonny, her sister, studies at the Academy of Fine Arts ; Marina dreams of being a professional dancer ; and Lena hopes to be a singer. One day, Victor and Helena, ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Jan Vanderheyden
CAST:  Vera Bosmans  •  Nand Buyl  •  Marina Candael  •  Louisa Colpeyn

Met den helm geboren (1939)

Meldodrama/folk comedy about a lower class guy who falls in love with the daughter of the lord of the castle ... .  (more)

DIRECTION:  Jan Vanderheyden
CAST:  Jef Bruyninckx  •  Nand Buyl  •  Tilly Janssens  •  Germaine Loosveldt

Meldodrama/folk comedy about a lower class guy who falls in love with the daughter of the lord of the castle ... .  (more)

DIRECTION:  Jan Vanderheyden
CAST:  Jef Bruyninckx  •  Nand Buyl  •  Tilly Janssens  •  Germaine Loosveldt

Drie flinke kerels (1938)

Three reporters are being fired by their old fashioned editor after a compromising photo of them appeared in some newspapers.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Jan Vanderheyden
CAST:  Frits Vaerewijck  •  Polus  •  Nand Buyl  •  Pola Cortez

Three reporters are being fired by their old fashioned editor after a compromising photo of them appeared in some newspapers.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Jan Vanderheyden
CAST:  Frits Vaerewijck  •  Polus  •  Nand Buyl  •  Pola Cortez

A Nice Case (1941)

A good bourgeois couple have adopted Monneke, a country boy. Maybe they should not have as their peaceful life is turned upside down by the antics of the little rascal.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Edith Kiel  •  Arthur Van Thillo
CAST:  Nand Buyl  •  Tuur Bouchez  •  Jan Cammans  •  Jeanne Cammans-Jans

A good bourgeois couple have adopted Monneke, a country boy. Maybe they should not have as their peaceful life is turned upside down by the antics of the little rascal.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Edith Kiel  •  Arthur Van Thillo
CAST:  Nand Buyl  •  Tuur Bouchez  •  Jan Cammans  •  Jeanne Cammans-Jans