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Monic Hendrickx
Monic Hendrickx (born 3 December 1966 in Sint Anthonis) is a Dutch actress. She has won several awards during her career including four Golden Calf awards for Best Actress at the Nederlands Film Festival, the Jury Award at the 2001 Newport Beach Film Festival and the Best Actress Award at the 1999 Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema. Early life Monic Hendrickx was born in 1966 in the Netherlands. At the age of three, she and her family moved to Paramaribo, Suriname Suriname, officially the Republic of Suriname, is a country in northern South America, also considered as part of the Caribbean and the West Indies. It is a developing country with a Human Development Index, high level of human development; i .... Eventually Hendrickx started her acting education at Toneelschool in Maastricht. Career Hendrickx made her screen debut in '' The Polish Bride''. In 2007 she filmed an English language adaptation of '' The Polish Bride'' in Australia. Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sint Anthonis
Sint Anthonis () is a village and former municipality in the southern Netherlands in the Province of North Brabant. The locals refer to the town as ''Sint Tunnis''. An inhabitant is called a "Sintunnisenaar". The former municipality had a population of in . Sint Anthonis, Boxmeer, Cuijk (municipality), Cuijk, Grave, Netherlands, Grave, and Mill en Sint Hubert merged into the new municipality of Land van Cuijk on 1 January 2022. History The town was mentioned in a last will as early as 1312. The town was called ''Oelbroec'' at the time. As the church of St. Anthony The Abbot was completed in 1477, people started referring to the town as the "Parish of St. Anthony in Oelbroec", and by 1570 the name Oelbroec had disappeared. Church Book registration started in 1640 and are to be found on the BHIC web site. Sint Anthonis was a part of the lordship of Boxmeer during the ancien régime. After the French rule, Sint Anthonis was parted from Boxmeer. Together with the village of Ledeack ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
De Held
''De Held'' is a 2016 Dutch crime film directed by Menno Meyjes. It was based on the novel of the same name by Jessica Durlacher. It was listed as one of eleven films that could be selected as the Dutch submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, Best Foreign Language Film at the 89th Academy Awards, but it was not nominated. De Held turned out to be the last movie with actress Kitty Courbois. Plot Cast * Fedja van Huêt as Jacob * Daan Schuurmans as Anton * Monic Hendrickx as Sara * Kitty Courbois as Iezebel * Susan Visser as Judith References External links * 2016 films 2016 crime drama films Dutch crime drama films 2010s Dutch-language films Films with screenplays by Menno Meyjes Films directed by Menno Meyjes Dutch-language crime drama films {{2010s-crime-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Moving True Story Of A Woman Ahead Of Her Time
''The Moving True Story of a Woman Ahead of Her Time'' ( West Frisian title: ''Nynke'') is a 2001 Dutch drama history film in the West Frisian language. It is a costume drama film about the life of Nienke van Hichtum and Dutch socialist and politician Pieter Jelles Troelstra. It is written and directed by Pieter Verhoeff. The film received a Golden Film (75,000 visitors) and Platinum Film in 2001. It also won two Golden Calves. It was selected as the Dutch entry for the Best International Feature Film at the 74th Academy Awards, but it was not nominated. Plot The film follows the life of Nynke from the time she first met Troelstra until their divorce. Cast * Monic Hendrickx as Nienke van Hichtum * Jeroen Willems as Pieter Jelles Troelstra * Peter Tuinman as Father of Pieter Jelles * Rients Gratama as Father of Nienke * Carine Crutzen as Cornélie Huygens See also * List of Dutch submissions for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film * List of submissions to t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
South (2004 Film)
South is one of the cardinal directions or compass points. The direction is the opposite of north and is perpendicular to both west and east. Etymology The word ''south'' comes from Old English ''sūþ'', from earlier Proto-Germanic ''*sunþaz'' ("south"), possibly related to the same Proto-Indo-European root that the word ''sun'' derived from. Some languages describe south in the same way, from the fact that it is the direction of the sun at noon (in the Northern Hemisphere), like Latin meridies 'noon, south' (from medius 'middle' + dies 'day', ), while others describe south as the right-hand side of the rising sun, like Biblical Hebrew תֵּימָן teiman 'south' from יָמִין yamin 'right', Aramaic תַּימנַא taymna from יָמִין yamin 'right' and Syriac ܬܰܝܡܢܳܐ taymna from ܝܰܡܝܺܢܳܐ yamina (hence the name of Yemen, the land to the south/right of the Levant). South is sometimes abbreviated as S. Navigation By convention, the ''bottom or down-f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deep (2005 Film)
''Deep'' () is a 2005 Dutch drama film In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone. The drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional terms that specify its particular ... about the 14-year-old girl Heleen (played by 15-year-old Melody Klaver). Many scenes are in extreme close-up. Plot Heleen practises tongue kissing first on her arm, then on another girl who is her friend, then does it with boys. On holiday in France she likes a French boy Bernard ( Hunter Bussemaker). However, when she tells him she loves him, she is uncomfortable with the bold way he starts touching her. Axel ( Stijn Koomen) is a childhood friend who is in love with her. However, Heleen is more interested in Axel's English friend Steve ( Damien Hope). Heleen is torn between her mother's statement that sex is like eating a sandwich, and Steve's that "sex should be like a voyage to the subl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leef!
''Life!'' () is a 2005 Dutch drama film directed by Willem van de Sande Bakhuyzen and written by Maria Goos. Director Willem van de Sande Bakhuyzen died the day before the premiere. won the 2005 Golden Calf award for the best supporting actress. Cast * Monic Hendrickx as Anna * Anne-Wil Blankers as Sybille * Peter Blok as Paul * Sarah Jonker as Robin * as Isabelle * as Jolande * as Gregor * Petra Laseur as Lies * as Sybille (Age 20) * Jeroen Krabbé as Hugo * Jeroen Willems as Gerard * as Ellie See also * List of Dutch films of 2005 This is a list of Dutch films released in 2005. January–March April–June July–September October–December See also * Cinema of the Netherlands Cinema of the Netherlands refers to the film industry based in the Nethe ... References External links * 2005 drama films 2005 films Dutch drama films 2000s Dutch-language films A-Film Distribution films Films directed by Willem van de Sande Bakhuyzen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Medea (TV Serial)
''Medea'' is a 2005 Dutch television serial in six episodes directed by Theo van Gogh, starring Katja Schuurman, Thijs Römer and Tara Elders. It tells the story of the daughter of a politician who tries to help her selfish boyfriend to become the prime minister of the Netherlands. The screenplay was written by Theodor Holman and is a take on Euripides' play '' Medea'', with the story moved to contemporary Dutch politics. The serial was produced by Column Film for the broadcaster AVRO. It won the Special Prize and was nominated for the Golden Calf for Best Television Drama at the 2005 Netherlands Film Festival. Cast * Katja Schuurman as Medea * Thijs Römer as Jason * Tara Elders as Anne * Krijn ter Braak as Moyra * Cas Enklaar as Middelink * Jochum ten Haaf as Frederik * Maarten Wansink as Jensma * Marcel Hensema as Matthijs * Eric van Sauers as Robin * Dragan Bakema as Thomas * Cees Geel as Bertje * Astrid van Eck as Xandra * Monic Hendrickx Monic Hendrickx (bor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Netherlands Film Festival
The Netherlands Film Festival () is an annual film festival, held in September and October of each year in the city of Utrecht. During the ten-day festival, Dutch film productions and co-productions are exhibited. Besides feature films, the program also consists of short subjects, documentary films, and television productions. On the closing evening of the festival, the Golden Calves are awarded to the best films, directors, and actors. Together with the Netherlands Film Fund, the festival also recognises box office results of Dutch film productions during the year with the Crystal Film (10,000 visitors of documentary films), Golden Film (100,000 visitors), Platinum Film (400,000 visitors), and Diamond Film (1,000,000 visitors). History The Netherlands Film Festival was founded in 1981 by the Dutch film maker Jos Stelling, who called it the "Netherlands Film Days" ('). Initially, the festival was oriented towards film makers only, but it gradually reached a broader audi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nadine (2007 Film)
''Nadine'' is a 2007 Dutch road movie drama film directed by Erik de Bruyn from a script he co-wrote with Gwen Eckhaus and starring Monic Hendrickx, Sanneke Bos and Halina Reijn. It follows a career woman named Nadine, who is played by the three lead actors at three different life stages of her life, the story starts when the oldest (Hendrickx) kidnaps a baby and goes on a road trip towards Portugal Portugal, officially the Portuguese Republic, is a country on the Iberian Peninsula in Southwestern Europe. Featuring Cabo da Roca, the westernmost point in continental Europe, Portugal borders Spain to its north and east, with which it share .... Nadine had its premiere on September 29 at the Netherlands Film Festival. At the International Filmfestival Mannheim-Heidelberg, the film was the opening film and would later debut in Dutch theaters on October 25, 2007. Plot Cast Production The idea for ''Nadine'' started shortly after the release of de Bruyn's Wild Mussel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
De Brief Voor De Koning (film)
''The Letter for the King'' (, ) is a 2008 Dutch adventure film written by Maarten Lebens and Pieter Verhoeff and directed by Verhoeff. The film is based on the 1962 book of the same name by Dutch writer Tonke Dragt. In 1963 the book won the Dutch award Best Youth Book of the Year; in 2004 it was named the Best Youth Book of the past 50 years. Over a million copies of the book have been sold to date. The filming of ''The Letter for the King'' took place from November 2007 till early March 2008, on locations in Germany (Eisenach and Engelskirchen), Luxembourg (Vianden), Belgium and the Netherlands. A 6 part TV adaptation of the novel also exists (2020), with significant plot differences. Plot In the land of Dagonaut a medieval squire named Tiuri and four other squires spend their last night before being knighted inside the chapel without chatting, sleeping, or eating. This is their last test in order to become a knight. But suddenly a badly wounded knight knocks on the door loo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Storm (2009 Film)
''The Storm'' () is a 2009 Dutch disaster film directed by Ben Sombogaart. Plot A terrible storm causes hundreds of dikes to break in Zeeland, resulting in the North Sea flood of 1953. Julia, a single mother living with her parents, is caught in the middle of a catastrophic flood. She is rescued from drowning and taken to safety by her neighbor Aldo, who is a member of the armed forces. However, her baby is left in a wooden box in the attic of Julia's parental home. Together Julia and Aldo return to the disaster area to look for the baby. When they finally find the box, it is empty, and they conclude that someone must have taken the child. The child ended up with a woman who recently lost her own baby in a car accident. Julia met her but because the woman did not want to lose the baby, she hid him from Julia. Eighteen years later, Julia meets her son and the woman again and she finds out what has happened. Cast *Sylvia Hoeks as Julia *Barry Atsma as Aldo * Dirk Roofthooft as Julia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
