Gerard Thoolen

Oliver Deuce, a successful doctor, is shattered when his wife is killed in a freak car accident involving the car being driven by Alba Bewick colliding with a very large rare bird (imdb)

An exiled magician finds an opportunity for revenge against his enemies muted when his daughter and the son of his chief enemy fall in love in this uniquely structured retelling of the 'The Tempest'. Intricate staging, graphic nudity, and lavish art production are part of this lurid spectacle. Shakespeare has never seemed quite the same. (imdb)

Lisa's parents are separated. Like the title says, her father (supposedly) lives in Rio de Janeiro. She often gets letters from him and dreams of visiting him in South America one fine day. However, this is all a major cover-up: the father is actually in a Dutch jail for a very long time. On top of that, her loving grandfather recently passed away, and there's no chemistry whatsoever with her mom's new boyfriend. Lisa can't take it anymore and runs away from home... to Brazil. (imdb)

This unfortunate interpretation of the life of a Jewish girl in Holland -- who escapes being sent to German death camps in 1942 while the rest of her family is deported -- is loosely based on the autobiographical novel by Marga Minco. (All Movie Guide)

Italian minstrel Campanelli follows a Dutchman, the robber of a golden chalice, but fails to prevent him being taken. Campanelli tells the fantastic story of a Dutchman to his son, who will eventually follow his fathers footsteps. (Sid Snot)

Hard to describe mix of slapstick, comedy, drama, arthouse movie and surreal picture. There's no understandable spoken word in this little masterpiece, but music and pictures take the viewer into this little world almost instantly.

Two estranged brothers, one straight, one gay, return home at the death of their father. Their father's last wish forces them into a pilgrimage together to bury the body and perhaps to bury long held grudges. (imdb)

A veterinarian lives together with his sister and her son in a small Flemish village. He has to cope with gossip and distrust from the villagers.

The plot follows a Dutch horticulturist from the day he leaves his farm to be admitted to hospital for cancer treatment to the inevitable sad ending. The film displays intensely how the different people concerned deal with the taboo of cancer (which was very strong in the 70s). Nobody tells the protagonist that he is in fact fatally ill so that he has to discover that by himself and come to terms with it. (imdb)

Hes, an uptight and disaffected social worker reaching retirement, discovers a young woman, Anna, in the closet of an acquaintance who has committed suicide. Realizing that she has been kept in the apartment all her life, he moves in and helps her comes to terms with the complexities of the real world. (imdb)

"Red Sunset" - A realistic fairy tale about old people in the no man's land between life and death, set in a retirement home.

The improvisation-based performance was inspired by psychiatrists such as RD Laing (Family and Madness) and J. Foudraine (Who is of wood). The Werkteater played this performance 'in the den of the lion': in psychiatric institutions for patients and carers. This led to very intensive and adventurous performances in which 'a lot' always happened. Afterwards the discussions sometimes ran high, but even during the performance the audience sometimes mixed themselves in the scenes.

"Hello Fellow Man" - Three lovely ladies of the class invite homeless people, homeless people and junks to spend a pleasant evening with them. To promote communication and integration. They celebrate this party live on television.

The fascinated confessions of Joan Crawford.

About the progressive culture group Het Werkteater at their home base on Kattengat 10 in Amsterdam.

In 1928 in the northern part of the Netherlands, a man has an affair with the wife of one of his friends (who is in jail at the time). Because she abandons her children to move in with him, the police are sent to arrest her. This leads to a dramatic confrontation. (imdb)