À cause des filles..?
A wrecked wedding party makes the guests remember past follies of desire and love. They don't make cultivated comedies like this anymore.
100'
France
IFFR 2020
Annette Apon might have made her fiction feature debut only in 1982 with her Virginia Woolf adaptation, The Waves, but she had been an active figure in Dutch cinema culture since attending film academy. As a co-founder of film magazine Skrien in 1968, and the film collective Amsterdams Stadsjournaal in 1974, and as a writer, she has the voice of an activist. Multi-faceted and energetic, a bit maybe like the protagonists of her recent works: Droom en daad - Het zoeken van Henriëtte Roland Holst (2012), Ik wil gelukkig zijn. Fien de la Mar (1898-1965) (2016), and now Leonie, actrice en spionne.
Gertrud Franziska Pütz, better known as Leonie Brandt, is one of the most mysterious characters of 20th-century Netherlands' history. A German-born, Dutch-by-marriage actress and playwright who worked for the Dutch secret service and then also for the Nazis... But who was Leonie really? Or: Is there such a thing as a life that is 'real'?
Also see Talk: The Tyger Burns.
- Director
- Annette Apon
- Premiere
- World premiere
- Country of production
- Netherlands
- Production Year
- 2020
- Festival Edition
- IFFR 2020
- Length
- 90'
- Medium
- DCP
- International title
- Leonie, Actress and Spy
- Language
- Dutch
- Producer
- Digna Sinke
- Production Company
- SNG Film
- Sales
- SNG Film
- Screenplay
- Annette Apon
- Cinematography
- Peter Brugman
- Editor
- Jan Ketelaars
- Sound Design
- Huibert Boon
- Music
- Harry de Wit
- Cast
- Cas Enklaar, , Martijn van der Veen , Rifka Lodeizen, Truus te Selle, Wart Kamps, Joost Tholens
- Local Distributor
- Mokum Film
Programme IFFR 2020
The Tyger Burns
A contemporary film programme about the gaze of the old filmmaker, showing that the creative urge still burns as brightly as 50 years ago.
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76'
Sweden
IFFR 2020
Adults in the Room
Yanis Varoufakis vs. EU financial establishment. A Kammerspiel-style classical political thriller that leaves no doubts about the good and the bad.
124'
France
IFFR 2020