One day, Louis – who seems obsessed by weapons and all things related – visits his old school friend Ada. She is quickly won over and not long after they marry. After the wedding their honeymoon takes them to Verdun in northern France, where over 500,000 soldiers died during the First World War.
Louis runs from one monument and cemetery to the next, like someone possessed, salivating because of how hard the fighting was there. Ada feels increasingly uneasy with her new husband. One day, he purposely has himself and Ada locked in at Fort Douamont where terrible events took pace during the war. There he turns out to be a stark raving maniac.
Part of RTM, the Rotterdam selection.
Also in this combined programme
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EXITing
Portrait of the Rotterdam poet Cornelis Bastiaan Vaandrager, a literary great who succumbed to his own compelling life. -
Plan Delta
Futuristic fantasy (from 1983) taking place around 2300 in two cities: one for the elite who become infertile, one for the potent poor. -
Kranenballet
Music video of ‘Doin’ Time’ by the new-wave band Kiem, with a choreography performed by Seaport Terminals crane operators. -
Het gat van Nederland – J.A. Deelders stadsgezicht
First extensive television portrait ever made of poet Jules Deelder, where he criticised the attempts to soften Rotterdam’s image.
Film details
- Country of production
- Netherlands
- Year
- 1983
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2020
- Length
- 90'
- Medium/Format
- DCP
