'' Filmpje!'' (, "Little Film!") is a

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Dutch Dutch commonly refers to: * Something of, from, or related to the Netherlands * Dutch people () * Dutch language () Dutch may also refer to: Places * Dutch, West Virginia, a community in the United States * Pennsylvania Dutch Country People E ...

comedy film A comedy film is a category of film which emphasizes humor. These films are designed to make the audience laugh through amusement. Films in this style traditionally have a happy ending ( black comedy being an exception). Comedy is one of the o ...

directed by Paul Ruven. It stars Dutch TV presenter and comedian

Paul de Leeuw Paul Henri de Leeuw (born 26 March 1962) is a Dutch television comedian, singer and actor. De Leeuw gained national fame in the late eighties and early nineties with television shows for broadcasting company VARA. Though satire was only a par ...

as two of his characters, Bob de Rooy and his wife Annie de Rooy, which were both featured in a lot of his TV sketches. Just like De Leeuw's TV shows the film is full of controversial comedy about taboo subjects. It was the most popular Dutch film of the year.

Plot

Bob de Rooy is an arrogant, egotistical man who divorces his well-meaning, but very naïve wife Annie, because she's unable to provide him the right amount of sex in their married life. After the divorce is settled, Bob goes to the red light district in Amsterdam to catch up what he has been missing all those years. There he starts an affair with a prostitute who turns out to be the daughter of gangster boss Don Gorgonzola. When the criminal boss finds out that his daughter has an affair with Bob, who arrogantly makes fun of him on the phone and hangs up before he does, Bob and his newfound love have to flee to

Curaçao Curaçao ( ; ; pap, Kòrsou, ), officially the Country of Curaçao ( nl, Land Curaçao; pap, Pais Kòrsou), is a Lesser Antilles island country in the southern Caribbean Sea and the Dutch Caribbean region, about north of the Venezuela coas ...

. Meanwhile, Annie falls in love three times, first with a notorious criminal who is later shot by one of Gorgonzola's henchmen, then with a man who dies of cancer and later one of Gorgonzola's henchmen who exploits Annie's innocence to let her smuggle drugs to Curaçao. There Annie and Bob meet again...

Cast

... Bob de Rooy / Annie de Rooy *

Rijk de Gooyer Rijk de Gooyer (17 December 1925 – 2 November 2011) was a Dutch Golden Calf-winning actor, writer, comedian and singer. From the 1950s until the early 1970s, he became well known in The Netherlands as part of a comic duo with John Kraaijkamp ...

... Don Gorgonzola (as Rijk de Gooijer) * Olga Zuiderhoek ... Carmen * Tom Jansen ... Brie *

Arjan Ederveen Arjan Ederveen Janssen (born 9 September 1956) is a Dutch actor, comedian, TV scriptwriter and TV director. He participated in the TV series ''Theo en Thea'', '' Kreatief met Kurk'' and ''30 minuten'' and played in the musicals '' Hairspray'' an ...

... Charl Diepenhoef *

Porgy Franssen Porgy may refer to: * ''Porgy'' (novel), a 1925 novel by DuBose Heyward * ''Porgy'' (play), a 1927 play by Dorothy Heyward and DuBose Heyward, based upon his 1925 novel * Porgy (fish), a common name for fishes in the family Sparidae * Porgy Key, ...

... Rocky Fort * Roos Ouwehand ... Marie Louise de Rooy *

Coen van Vlijmen Coen may refer to: * Coen (name), a given name and surname * Enrico Coen (1957), a British botanist * Coen brothers, a U.S. filmmaker sibling duo * Coen River, Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, Australia; named after ''Jan Pieterszoon Coen'' in 16 ...

... Albert de Rooy *

Kees Groenteman Kees or KEES may refer to: * Kees (given name) * Kees (surname) * KEES, an American AM radio station licensed to Gladewater, Texas See also * Cees (disambiguation) {{disambiguation ...

... Marcel de Rooy * IJf Blokker ... Piet Buks *

Wil van der Meer Wil () is the capital of the ''Wahlkreis'' (constituency) of Wil in the canton of St. Gallen in Switzerland. Wil is the third largest city in the Canton of St. Gallen, after the city of St. Gallen and Rapperswil-Jona, a twin city that merged ...

... Gekke Gerrit (as Will van der Meer) *

Peer Mascini Petrus Johannes Maria "Peer" Mascini (23 March 1941 – 16 May 2019) was a Dutch actor and writer. He is well known for his work in Blind Date (1996) and De eenzame oorlog van Koos Tak (1996). He was a recipient of Golden Calf award. Career ...

... Joop Rooster *

Willeke Alberti Willeke Alberti (born 3 February 1945) (real name: Willy Albertina Verbrugge) is a Dutch singer and actress, the daughter of entertainer and singer Willy Alberti (1926–1985) and Hendrika Geertruida Kuiper (1921–2011). Biography Willeke Alb ...

... Toos Rooster * Pleuni Touw ... Mevrouw Lozig * Bram van der Vlugt ... Dokter Lozig

References

External links

* Dutch comedy films Dutch crime comedy films Dutch satirical films Films set in the Netherlands Films shot in the Netherlands Netherlands in fiction Films about prostitution in the Netherlands Mafia films Films about dysfunctional families Curaçao in fiction Films set in Curaçao Films shot in Curaçao 1995 films 1990s Dutch-language films 1990s crime comedy films Self-reflexive films Films based on television series 1995 comedy films {{1990s-comedy-film-stub