Jacob Derwig
Total Credits at Criticker: 22 (Actor)
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A quirky romantic comedy about 3 sisters who connive to prevent their gay brother from inheriting their beautiful seaside vacation home. (Quad Cinema)
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One winter's day Jacob and his sister Marie are left behind in the woods by their unemployed father. In his coat Jacob finds a note from his mother urging them to go to their uncle in Spain. They arrive in Spain only to find that their uncle has died. Marie meets Diego, a rich surgeon, and falls in love with him... (imdb)
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Based on a book about an infamous real scandal in the Dutch crime scene, the film aims at exposing the horrors caused by corruption on both sides of the law... (imdb)
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Iles flottantes or 'floating isles' is the name of a well-known French dessert: meringue drizzled with vanilla cream. The movie's title symbolically relates to three friends, Kaat, Sasha and Isa, who are drifting freely along the current of life. They live their lives with an amusingly ironic confidence, but now that they are approaching thirty the realisation comes that everything in life is far from being just a joke...
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Anne is a successful theatre actress in Amsterdam, but her flamboyant lifestyle has left her almost bankrupt. Accountant Jacob is appointed to balance her books, and concludes that the only option is to sell her houseboat. Anne is distraught, and plans a farewell party to stall for time while she tries to find a job big enough to keep her home.
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Sometime in the future. The government's policy towards euthanasia and the public's demand for extreme fights meet. People with the 'aggression gene' go through a severe selection procedure and take part in in fights to the death broadcasted live on TV. Temmink is one of them. (motelfilms.nl)
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All the members of the De Roover family have ended up at a point of no return in their lives where crucial choices have to be made. Winnie wants a child. Her husband Rutmer wants to get in touch with his feelings. His brother Charlie doesn't want any responsibilities. Their brother-in-law Dick wants his deceased wife back. Head of the family Arend wants to be happy. Mother Jeannette wants somebody to want her. (imdb)
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Adapting a Dutch bestseller inspired by a shocking real-life crime, Menno Meyjes (screenwriter of The Color Purple and Lionheart) directs this excoriating assessment of Europe's contemporary social ills. (tiff.net)
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Maj-id is a talented kick boxer from a gray, anonymous suburb in The Netherlands. As his fighting prowess brings him increasing notoriety in-and outside the ring, the worlds of kickboxing and organized crime begin to blur into each another and Maj id begins to lose sight of what it is he really wants. (imdb)
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In 1888 Amsterdam, a stubborn violin maker opposes the powerful businessmen who plan to force him from his house and erect a luxurious new hotel in its place. Together with his pharmacist cousin they plan to sell the house for big money and help finance 100 people's emigration to the US.
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In Nazi-occupied Amsterdam, banker brothers Walraven and Gijs van Hall face their greatest challenge yet when they decide to help fund the Dutch resistance. (imdb)
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Gemmeker (2020) - Short Film
In 1948, Albert Gemmeker, former commander of Dutch concentration camp Westerbork, engages in a war of words with an enigmatic interrogator accusing him of unspeakable crimes.
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De enclave (2002) - TV Movie
TV series in three episodes shows the current politico-social drama as a result of the fall of the enclave Srebrenica, as seen through the eyes of three protagonists. Eight years after date, the former Bosnian Dutchbat interpreter Hadzic, the Serbian sergeant Bokan and the Dutch Minister of Defence Terhoef are confronted with each other at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague. The thread through this triptych is Hadzic's story. He works at the The Hague Trib
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BuZa (2021) - TV Series
BuZa tells about a Minister of Foreign Affairs (Prince) who is appointed when his predecessor dies unexpectedly. But when all kinds of political corpses come out of the closet and one crisis after another presents itself, he has great difficulty earning the trust of his staff.
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The Spectacular (2021) - TV Mini-Series
Miniseries about a succession of horrible IRA attacks that really took place in the late 1980s in Limburg. During the hunt for the IRA fighters, suspicions arise of sabotage by the powers that be, right when a devastating attack is imminent. Team leader Jeanine Maes (Hadewych Minis) opens the hunt for the ruthless Fiona Hughes (Aoibhínn McGinnity), the only female member of the IRA cell. (imdb)
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Een moord kost meer levens (2023) - TV Mini-Series
'A Murder Costs More Lives' is a true story, told through the eyes of Paul Spruit and written by Peter R. de Vries. He originally published the book in 1994 and called it 'his best book'. The series gives a special insight into the 1980s and takes the viewer into the skin and mind of (murderer) Paul Spruit. He lived a shocking and eventful life. The series takes a look at Paul's experience: Is it decisive where you are born or do you have your fate in your own hands? (Videoland.com, translated)
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Set in the 1990s, Krazy House follows religious homemaker Bernie and his sitcom family. When Russian workers in Bernie's house turn out to be wanted criminals, Bernie has to man up and save his imprisoned family, while slowly going crazy.
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Coma (1994) - TV Movie
About a mysterious enigmatic patient in his forties who suffers from memory loss. Because of this he has neither identity nor past. Blanco, without language and prejudices, the man starts a new life.
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Bij ons in de Jordaan (2000) - TV Mini-Series
"In Our Jordaan" is a Dutch miniseries from 2000, directed by Willem van de Sande Bakhuyzen. The series is based on the biography "De zon schijnt voor iedereen" (The Sun Shines for Everyone) about Johnny Jordaan, written by Bert Hiddema. It was adapted into a three-part series with episodes lasting 50 minutes each, edited by Kees Prins and Frank Ketelaar.
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Klem (2017) - TV Series
A man who works for the tax authorities ends up becoming friends with a dangerous criminal after their daughters become best friends and he accidentally saves his life.
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The Terrible Eighties (2022) - TV Series
The Terrible Eighties is set in the absurd reality of a housing estate in the 1980s. The nine-year-old girl Piet makes frantic attempts to hold her own in the unusual family situation. (imdb)
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