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The Girl and Death
The Flying Dutchman
(In pre-production) Feature-length film, co-production with TV Indie Film Production, co-production between the Netherlands and Russia.
(Completed, released 2012) Feature-length film, co-production with TV Indie Film Production (Russia). Cast: Sergey Makovetsky, Sylvia Hoeks, Leonid Bichevin, Dieter Hallervorden, Renata Litvinova. Sales: FCCE.
(Completed, released 1995) Feature-length film, co-production with Christoph Mayer-Wiel (Germany). Cast: René Groothof, Veerle Dobbelaere, Nino Manfredi, Gene Bervoets, Gerard Thoolen. Sales: Studio Canal.
The Girl and Death tells a timeless story of love and death. The Russian doctor Nicolai returns to the old, abandoned hotel/brothel where he once met the courtesan Elise. His reliving of this intense love story causes past and present to become one. Leitmotifs: Sehnsucht, Chekhov, Pushkin and The Long Goodbye. • Golden Calf Best Film, Best Camera & Best Sound, Netherlands Film Festival (2012) • Leonardo’s Horse Award Best Cinematography & Best Production Design, Milan Int. Film Festival MIFF Awards (Italy, 2013) • Award Outstanding Performance Renata Litvinova, Open Art Festival ‘Cherry Forest’ (Russia, 2013)
The Flying Dutchman is an epic tale in three chapters about the search of a serf for his alleged father: the Flying Dutchman. The original and fairy tale like story is an ode to fantasy and imagination and is set in the times of the Dutch Revolt (16th and 17th century) in Flanders and the Netherlands, in which iconoclasts, the Spanish inquisition and Dutch rebels all play a part. • Nominated for the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival, 1995 • Silver Frog Camerimage (Poland), 1996 • Mentioned as one of the best 100 films of the 20th century in the renowned book: Making Pictures: A Century of European Cinematography, by IMAGO, the Federation of European Cinematographers.
An accidental love story is the unexpected result of a man’s fascination with a Russian mathematical genius. After a logical start, unexpected and absurd circumstances pile up and eventually lead to a conclusion in which nothing is logical, but everything is right. An involuntary quest for the inexplicable emotion and timeless beauty of a moment.
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