Louis Paul Boon

In the 1890s, Father Adolf Daens goes to Aalst, a textile town where child labor is rife, pay and working conditions are horrible, the poor have no vote, and the Catholic church backs the petite bourgeoisie in oppressing workers. He writes a few columns for the Catholic paper, and soon workers are listening and the powerful are in an uproar... (imdb)

The second movie version, now in color, of Flemish (heimat-)author Ernest Claes' classical novel, titled after the nickname (Dutch 'the White', referring to a blond male) of the main character. The smart but naughty farmhands son's eternal mischief, pranks and disobedience drive his elders (especially teachers, family and father's grumpy employer, a rich farmer, but also neighbors and even the kind curate whose liturgical server he is) and classmates to despair... (imdb)

A celebrated Flemish writer occupying a small apartment in a big Belgian city witnesses how the inhabitants of a dead-end street try to fight the injustice of expropriation. (imdb)

A factory worker is employed in the desolate, cold-storage cellars of a brewery. His spare time he devotes to collecting romantic images of wildflowers and sticking newspaper cuttings in an album, demonstrating a preference for more gruesome stories. Murders, rapes, and acts of violence are the events that accompany his everyday existence and invest it with a tinge of color. (Hannelore Goossens)