Synopsis
A black comedy set in the 1960s in a small Netherlands community, populated by a cast of eccentrics, all of whom hold a range of sexual obsessions and frustrated desires.
Ratings
IMDb7.3/10
64 audience votes
Key crew
- Alex van WarmerdamDirector
- Alex van WarmerdamWriter
- Aat CeelenWriter
Cast
- Jack WouterseJacob
- Annet MalherbeMartha
- Rudolf LucieerAnton
- Leonard LucieerThomas
- Loes WoutersonElisabeth
- Alex van WarmerdamPlagge
- Veerle DobbelaereAgnes
- Dary SomeBlack man
- Theo van GoghFat Willy
- Jacques CommandeurTeacher
- Loes LucaFat Willy's Mother
- Leny BreederveldBuurvrouw
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Themes
neglectdark comedynetherlandsbutcherbutcher's shopneighborsuburbmysterious1960swhimsical