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• Release Year: 1997
• Genre: Crime, Drama, Foreign, Mystery
• Plot: Dreverhaven is dead. The city's most feared bailiff, the curse of the poor, the agent of law without compassion - discovered with a kinife through his heart. A self-thought lawyer who just passed his exams was the last person to see Dreverhaven alive. Now, the police want to know why he visitied the old man, and the young barrister is ready to tell the story of a lifetime.; Based on the popular classic 1938 Dutch novel by Ferdinand Bordewijk, this emotional powerhouse of a drama portrays a timeless struggle between father and son - a stuggle even the father knows the son is destined to win. beautifully set in Rotterdam of the 1920s, this visually stunning film delivers us deep into the heart of a Dickensian world, austere and cruel yet touchingly human. Fedja van Huet and Jan Decleir star in writer/director Mike van Diem's Academy Award winning feature debut.
• Cast: Jan Decleir, Fedja van Huêt, Betty Schuurman, Tamar van den Dop, Victor Löw, Hans Kesting, Lou Landré, Bernard Droog, Frans Vorstman, Fred Goessens, Jasper Gottlieb, Marius Gottlieb, Pavlik Jansen op de Haar, Marisa Van Eyle, Wim Van Der Grijn, Jos Verbist, Jaap Spijkers, Mark Rietman, Jack Hedley, Bruun Kuyt, Jeroen Lopes-Cardozo, Cas Jansen, Paul Kooij, Mees Jongema, Rick van Gastel, Malgorzata Napiórkowska, Annemarie Grosfeld, Marzena Kipiel-Sztuka, Dennis Overeem, Jonathan Maxwell Reeves, Arjan van den Haak, Mike van Diem, Ferdinand Bordewijk, Laurens Geels, Ruud van Megen
• Director: Mike van Diem
• Runtime: 2:05
• Company: Sony Pictures Classics
• Media Format: Movie