Helium

  • 79'
  • Netherlands
  • 2014
Criminal Frans Weeling is a cold, blunt man. He bites off his sentences, never using a word more than necessary. So he doesn't engage much in chit-chat with his henchmen John and Elias, who accompany him to a deserted holiday park on a Dutch island, where he is hiding out from vengeful Nigerian rivals.
They sigh, remain silent. Then, somewhere between a visit to an old lighthouse and a tropical swimming pool, Frans realises how little the skin he is so desperately trying to save is worth. Back in the Amsterdam underworld, when confronted by a ruthless power struggle, he is unable to act.
Helium is a portrait of a man who slowly erases himself - a man who also realises that maybe there isn't even that much to rub out. This is an account of an existential crisis in someone whose life consists mainly of things such as ‘put a bullet through his head’ and ‘a load of bother for a few hundred grand’. A sombre debut with a great lead role for Hans Dagelet.
  • 79'
  • Netherlands
  • 2014
Director
Eché Janga
Premiere
World premiere
Country of production
Netherlands
Year
2014
Festival Edition
IFFR 2014
Length
79'
Medium
DCP
Language
Dutch
Producers
Frans van Gestel, Arnold Heslenfeld
Production Company
Topkapi Films
Sales
Topkapi Films
Screenplay
Sammy Reynaert
Cinematography
Tibor Dingelstad
Editor
Axel Skovdal Roelofs
Production Design
Floris Vos
Sound Design
Michiel de Boer
Music
Christiaan Verbeek
Cast
Hans Dagelet, Manou Kersting
Local Distributor
September Film
Website
http://topkapifilms.nl/our-films/helium
Director
Eché Janga
Premiere
World premiere
Country of production
Netherlands
Year
2014
Festival Edition
IFFR 2014
Length
79'
Medium
DCP
Language
Dutch
Producers
Frans van Gestel, Arnold Heslenfeld
Production Company
Topkapi Films
Sales
Topkapi Films
Screenplay
Sammy Reynaert
Cinematography
Tibor Dingelstad
Editor
Axel Skovdal Roelofs
Production Design
Floris Vos
Sound Design
Michiel de Boer
Music
Christiaan Verbeek
Cast
Hans Dagelet, Manou Kersting
Local Distributor
September Film
Website
http://topkapifilms.nl/our-films/helium