Kees de Groot

Kees de Groot at IFFR

• Een held van onze tijd

  Third-rate cabaret artiste is punished for his complacency.

  • main programme

• Unter den Palmen

  Beautifully stylised urban drama with David (Helmut Berger) and Tanja (Sheri Hagen) who find themselves in Rotterdam through the obscure business d

  • dutch perspective
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  Golden Earring: Don’t Stop the Show

  Very varied document looking back at the history of Golden Earring, following the band members, augmented with lots of music, videos, interviews an

  • dutch perspective

• Ajax – Daar hoorden zij engelen zingen

  Documentary about the disastrous anniversary year of the Amsterdam soccer club. It shows how professionalisation, business interests and a lost sea

  • dutch perspective
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  De arm van Jezus

  Musical elements and archive material is mixed in this surrealist drama about a son who goes looking for his father in Rotterdam. Several roles are

  • Tiger Competition
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  Cloaca

  Widely praised film version of the play by scriptwriter Maria Goos is about the vicissitudes of four student friends. It won two Golden Calves.

  • dutch perspective

• Stills

  Short and realistic drama about suicide.

  • dutch perspective
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  Gezocht: Man

  Bas is a sensitive and enterprising boy aged nine who sets off to find a new husband for his mother. His mother thinks that Bas is looking for a fa

  • Sturm und Drang

• Geboren in een verkeerd lichaam

  Farmer from Groningen feels attracted to bushman.

  • fake

• The Four A.M. Feed

  Mother is sent crazy by her screaming baby and seeks an original answer.

  • dutch perspective