De wederopstanding van een klootzak

  • 90'
  • Netherlands
  • 2013
'He’s totally different', his mate Janus says a little shocked. 'Just as Bruce Willis was totally different in The Sixth Sense from in Die Hard. He’s just not the old Ronnie anymore!'
The Amsterdam crook Ronnie (neck brace, large horn-rimmed glasses and a considerable belly) and his bodyguard/chauffeur Janus (sideburns, 1950s shirts) roam through the Friesian town of Dokkum, looking for a man with Dokkum's coat of arms tattooed on his wrist.
Then we see a flashback of 'the old Ronnie', a hardened crook with several obsessive neuroses. The eccentricities of Ronnie and Janus are intercut with those of Eduardo, a young asylum seeker from Angola who is in the refugee centre in Dokkum. Because Eduardo is unable to talk about the horrors he lived through, he sees his chances of a residence permit go up in smoke.
The Resurrection of a Bastard is the feature debut by Amsterdam artist, graphic novelist and filmmaker Guido van Driel, based on his own graphic novel Om mekaar in Dokkum from 2004. The dialogues are challenging, the photography beautiful. Yorick van Wageningen is wonderful as the transforming Ronnie; the Dutch actor Jeroen Willems, who died on 3 December 2012, plays an impressive supporting role as a merciless gangster. Official Opening Film IFFR 2013.

Director
Guido van Driel
Premiere
World premiere
Countries of production
Netherlands, Belgium
Year
2013
Festival Edition
IFFR 2013
Length
90'
Medium
DCP
International title
The Resurrection of a Bastard
Language
Dutch
Producer
Frans van Gestel
Production Company
Topkapi Films
Sales
Topkapi Films
Screenplay
Bas Blokker, Guido van Driel, based on a graphic novel by Guido van Driel
Cinematography
Lennert Hillege
Editor
Alain Dessauvage
Production Design
Floris Vos
Sound Design
Peter Warnier
Cast
Jeroen Willems, Leny Breederveld, Yorick van Wageningen
Local Distributor
A-Film Distribution
Website
http://www.topkapifilms.nl/our-films/the-resurrection-of-a-bastard/
Director
Guido van Driel
Premiere
World premiere
Countries of production
Netherlands, Belgium
Year
2013
Festival Edition
IFFR 2013
Length
90'
Medium
DCP
International title
The Resurrection of a Bastard
Language
Dutch
Producer
Frans van Gestel
Production Company
Topkapi Films
Sales
Topkapi Films
Screenplay
Bas Blokker, Guido van Driel, based on a graphic novel by Guido van Driel
Cinematography
Lennert Hillege
Editor
Alain Dessauvage
Production Design
Floris Vos
Sound Design
Peter Warnier
Cast
Jeroen Willems, Leny Breederveld, Yorick van Wageningen
Local Distributor
A-Film Distribution
Website
http://www.topkapifilms.nl/our-films/the-resurrection-of-a-bastard/