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Betty Schuurman
Betty Schuurman (born 1962) is a Dutch actress. She appeared in more than forty films since 1992 including '' Character'' which won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film at the 70th Academy Awards The 70th Academy Awards ceremony, organized by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), took place on March 23, 1998, at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles beginning at 6:00 p.m. PST / 9:00 p.m. EST. During the sho .... Selected filmography References External links * 1962 births Living people Dutch film actresses 20th-century Dutch actresses 21st-century Dutch actresses People from Edam-Volendam {{Netherlands-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edam, Netherlands
Edam () is a city in the northwest Netherlands, in the province of North Holland. Combined with Volendam, Edam forms the municipality of Edam-Volendam. Approximately 7,380 people live in Edam. The entire municipality of Edam-Volendam has 28,492 inhabitants. The name Edam originates from a dam on the little river E or IJe where the first settlement was located and which was therefore called IJedam. Edam is famous as the original source of the cheese with the same name. History The town of Edam was founded around a dam crossing the river E or IJe close by the Zuiderzee, now known as the IJsselmeer. Around 1230 the channel was dammed. At the dam goods had to be transferred to other vessels and the inhabitants of Edam could levy a toll. This enabled Edam to grow as a trade town. Shipbuilding and fishing brought Edam more wealth. Count Willem V of Holland granted Edam rights as a borough in 1357. One of the reasons he did that was because of the war between the Hoeken and the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Character (film)
''Character'' () is a 1997 Dutch-Belgian drama film, based on the best-selling novel by Ferdinand Bordewijk and directed by Mike van Diem. The film won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film at the 70th Academy Awards. The film stars Fedja van Huêt, Jan Decleir, and Betty Schuurman. Plot In 1930's Rotterdam, A.B. Dreverhaven, a dreaded bailiff, is found dead, with a knife stuck in his stomach. The obvious suspect is Jacob Willem Katadreuffe, an ambitious young lawyer who worked his way up from poverty, always managing to overcome Dreverhaven's personal attacks against him. Katadreuffe was seen leaving Dreverhaven's office on the afternoon of the murder. He is arrested and taken to police headquarters, where he reflects back on the story of his long relationship with Dreverhaven, who, police learn, is also Katadreuffe's father. The story begins when Katadreuffe's taciturn mother, Joba, worked as a housekeeper for Dreverhaven. During that time, they had sex only once ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Academy Award For Best Foreign Language Film
The Academy Award for Best International Feature Film (known as Best Foreign Language Film prior to 2020) is one of the Academy Awards handed out annually by the U.S.-based Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS). It is given to a feature-length motion picture produced outside the United States with a predominantly non-English dialogue track.80th Academy Awards – Special Rules for the Best Foreign Language Film Award . . Retrieved November 2, 2007. When the first Academy Awards ceremony was held on May 16, 1929, to honor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
70th Academy Awards
The 70th Academy Awards ceremony, organized by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), took place on March 23, 1998, at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles beginning at 6:00 p.m. PST / 9:00 p.m. EST. During the show, AMPAS presented Academy Awards (commonly referred to as Oscars) in 24 categories honoring films released in 1997. The ceremony, which was televised in the United States by ABC, was produced by Gil Cates and directed by Louis J. Horvitz. Actor Billy Crystal hosted the show for the sixth time. He had first hosted the 62nd ceremony held in 1990, and most recently the previous year's awards. Nearly a month earlier in an event held at the Regent Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Beverly Hills, California on February 28, the Academy Awards for Technical Achievement were presented by host Ashley Judd. ''Titanic'' won 11 awards, including Best Picture, a number that is tied with '' Ben-Hur'' and '' The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the Kin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Shadow Walkers
''The Shadow Walkers'' or '' De Schaduwlopers '' is a 1995 Dutch film directed by Peter Dop. It is Dop's debut as a feature film director. Leen and Albert are two brothers who follow people around randomly at night in a small town. Both are married to a sister that is related to each other and while they go on with their normal daily lives, the brothers follow people and note slight changes in people's behavior. Their name for the activity is walking shadow. The brothers end up following a Japanese tour group heading to Paris. Cast * Pierre Bokma ... Leen * Aat Ceelen ... Albert * Jeroen Willems ... Stijn * Marlies Heuer ... Judith * Lineke Rijxman ... Paula * Ariane Schluter ... Serveerster * Betty Schuurman ... Margreet * Jack Wouterse ... Man met Koffer * Han Kerkhoffs ... Marco * Dirk Zeelenberg ... Frans * Dennis Rudge ... Amerikaanse Militair * Jan Kruse ... Schoonhoven * Marie Kooyman ... Vrouw in Bontjas * Ferry Kaljee ... Echtpaar in Snackbar * A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Twin Sisters (2002 Film)
''Twin Sisters'' () is a 2002 Dutch film, directed by Ben Sombogaart, based on the novel '' The Twins'' by Tessa de Loo, with a screenplay by Dutch actress and writer . The film stars Thekla Reuten, Nadja Uhl, Ellen Vogel and Gudrun Okras. Plot The film tells the story of twin German sisters Lotte (Thekla Reuten) and Anna (Nadja Uhl), who are separated when they are six. After the deaths of their parents, they are "divided" between quarreling distant relatives, one being raised in the Netherlands and the other in Germany. Lotte grows up in a loving Jewish middle-class intellectual family in the Netherlands and Anna is raised in virtual servitude by a poor Catholic peasant family in a backward area where she is abused by her uncle. The two girls seek to keep in contact, but Anna's family lacks Lotte's address, and Lotte's new family fails to mail her letters for fear that the brutal farmers will claim her as well. The cataclysmic events of World War II sweep them even furth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sea Of Silence
''Sea of Silence'' () is a 2003 Dutch-language drama film directed by Stijn Coninx, starring Johanna ter Steege, Huub Stapel and Neeltje de Vree. The film was released by Warner Bros. Pictures on 29 October in Belgium and 27 November in the Netherlands. It received mixed reviews and was a commercial failure, only attracting 1,811 attendances in the Netherlands. It was selected as the Belgian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 76th Academy Awards, but it was not nominated. Plot Cast * Huub Stapel as Mees Werner sr. * Johanna ter Steege as Ita Werner * Neeltje de Vree as Caro Werner * Nyk Runia as Mees Werner jr. * Yannic Pieters as Bram Werner * Julia Van Lisenburg as Annette Werner * Isabel Leur as Lettie Werner * Anneke Blok as Tante Connie * Annet Malherbe as Tante Masha * Kees Hulst as Oom Tom * Michiel Beurskens as Adri * Marisa Van Eyle as Tante Veronica * Jappe Claes as Oom Willy * Betty Schuurman as Moniek * Valentijn Vermeer as Thijs * Dirk Rooftho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Winky's Horse
''Winky's Horse'' () is a 2005 Dutch-Belgian Sinterklaas drama film directed by Mischa Kamp, produced by Burny Bos and written by Tamara Bos, based on her 2002 book ''Winky en het paard van Sinterklaas''. The film follows Winky Wong, who develops a fascination with horses amist her struggles with her family immigrating from China to the Netherlands, When she hears about the arrival of Sinterklaas, she decides to get one from him this season. The film was released in the Netherlands by Warner Bros. Pictures on 12 October 2005 and received a re-release the following year. The film received positive reviews from critics and won multiple award nominations and wins, it won a Golden Calf award for Best Script of a Feature Film and the film received a Golden Film for 100,000 visitors. A sequel, '' Where Is Winky's Horse?'', was released in 2007. Plot Six-year-old Winky Wong and her mother immigrate from China to the Netherlands to help her father at his Chinese restaurant, where sh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Where Is Winky's Horse?
''Where Is Winky's Horse?'' () is a 2007 Dutch-Belgian Sinterklaas drama film directed by Mischa Kamp and written by Tamara Bos, based on her book of the same name. It is the sequel to ''Winky's Horse'' (). The film was released in the Netherlands by Warner Bros. Pictures on 10 October 2007. It received positive reviewsa from critics and won the Golden Film award after it had sold 100,000 cinema tickets. Plot Winky Wong lives in the Netherlands for some time after she and her mother immigrated from China to help her father at his Chinese restaurant. She's allowed to take care of Amerigo, the horse of Sinterklaas at Tante Cor and Oom Siem's equestrian facility. despite that, she isn't allowed to ride him due to her size. On her birthday, Cor gives her riding lessons with a pony named Naf-Naf. At home, Winky's mother announces to her that she is pregnant and that she will get a sibling. However, her mother is beginning to feel sick and she is later admitted to the hospital due t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bloedbroeders
''Blood Brothers'' () is a 2008 Dutch television film directed by Arno Dierickx. The film is based on the Baarn murder case, which took place between 1960 and 1963. The then 17-year-old Boudewijn Henny, his 15-year-old brother Ewout Henny and their 16-year-old friend Hennie Werkhoven killed the 14-year-old Theo Mastwijk in Soest. Plot Simon is a high school student who always gets high grades. He isn't popular and spends his free time doing his home work and helping his mother. One day, he is in a store buying an LP album for his mother and runs into the popular brothers, Arnout and Victor van Riebeeck. Arnout and Victor are the sons of a very wealthy man and like to make trouble. Arnout is trying to steal an LP album, but gets caught by the store clerk. He shoves the LP album into Simon's hands to stay out of trouble and it seems to work. Eventually, Simon steals the LP album for the boys. Outside, they get to know each other better. They are interrupted by Ronnie, a h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Instinct (2019 Film)
''Instinct'' is a 2019 Dutch drama film directed by Halina Reijn in her feature-length directorial debut from a script she co-wrote with Esther Gerritsen and it stars Carice van Houten and Marwan Kenzari. It follows Nicoline, a prison therapist who becomes obsessed with a patient, who is a serial rapist. Development of the film started in 2015 under the name of ''Locus of Control'' based on a pitch by Reijn. She and Gerritsen did extensive research into the subject while writing the script, including a visit at a clinic. Filming took place in May 2018 over the course of 23 days on a modest budget. The film had its premiere at the 72nd Locarno Film Festival and was the opening film at the 39th Netherlands Film Festival on September 27, it was released in Dutch theaters the following week. It received generally positive reviews from critics and was selected as the Dutch entry for the Best International Feature Film at the 92nd Academy Awards, but it was not nominated. Plot A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1962 Births
The year saw the Cuban Missile Crisis, which is often considered the closest the world came to a Nuclear warfare, nuclear confrontation during the Cold War. Events January * January 1 – Samoa, Western Samoa becomes independent from New Zealand. * January 3 – The office of Pope John XXIII announces the excommunication of Fidel Castro for preaching communism and interfering with Catholic churches in Cuba. * January 8 – Harmelen train disaster: 93 die in the worst Netherlands, Dutch rail disaster. * January 9 – Cuba and the Soviet Union sign a trade pact. * January 12 – The Indonesian Army confirms that it has begun operations in West Irian. * January 13 – People's Socialist Republic of Albania, Albania allies itself with the People's Republic of China. * January 15 ** Portugal abandons the United Nations General Assembly due to the debate over Angola. ** French designer Yves Saint Laurent (designer), Yves Saint Laurent launches Yves Saint Lau ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
