Pallieter

In this film version of the Dutch-language classic ('heimat'-)novel by Flemish author Felix Timmermans, the title character is a city-boy from Lier who after recovering from a life-threatening disease changes his life completely and his name to the self-invented Pallieter. He moves in with Charlote, a naive, caring relative in the country, where he starts frolicking, no longer caring for image, career or possessions, but concentrates on enjoying life -such as a draftee relative's Brueghelian wedding- and finds love with Marieke. A dark story-line however is when projected work on the river in the name of economical progress threatens the rural landscape they have fallen in love with...

• Roland VerhavertDirector
• Felix TimmermansWriter
• Hugo ClausScreenplay

• Eddie BrugmanPallieter
• Jacqueline RommertsMarieke
• Sylvia de LeurCharlotte
• Joris DielsPastoor
• Idwig StephaneFransoo
• Rudi Van VlaenderenOude Graaf
• Herbert FlackJonge Graaf
• Manu VerrethNonkel Manu
• Jan ReusensNonkel
• Jan DecleirBohumil
• Alice ToenTante