''My Queen Karo'' is a 2009

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. It was directed by Dorothée Van Den Berghe, produced by

Frank Van Passel Frank Van Passel (born 23 June 1964) is a Belgian film director and producer. In 1995, he made his directorial film debut with ''Manneken Pis (film), Manneken Pis'', which premiered at the 1995 Cannes Film Festival and won the Mercedes-Benz Award, ...

, and starring

Matthias Schoenaerts Matthias Schoenaerts ( , ; born 8 December 1977) is a Belgian actor. He made his film debut at the age of 13 in ''Daens (film), Daens'' (1992), which was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. He is best known for his rol ...

Déborah François Déborah François (; born 24 May 1987) is a Belgium, Belgian actress. She is best known for her starring role in the Palme d'Or-winning film, ''L'Enfant (film), The Child'' (2005), directed by the Dardenne brothers. In 2009, she won a César A ...

, and Anna Franziska Jaeger. The film tells the story of Karo, a ten-year-old girl who witnesses the moral dilemmas of free love when her parents join a squatter community in 1970s Amsterdam. The film received three nominations at the 1st Magritte Awards.

Cast

* Anna Franziska Jaeger as Karo *

as Raven *

as Dalia *

Rifka Lodeizen Rifka Lodeizen (born 16 October 1972 in Amsterdam) is a Dutch actress. Career Lodeizen made her debut with a small role in the 1991 film ''The Province (film), The Province''. She was discovered by film director Eddy Terstall and she played a ...

as Jacky * Maria Kraakman as Alice * Hadewych Minis as Rosa * Nico Sturm as Barré * Ward Weemhoff as Joop * Christelle Cornil as Anne Clare * Bastiaan Rook as Kraker

Production

From the beginning, director Dorothée Van Den Berghe had chosen Anna Franziska Jaeger to play Karo, but the film took two years to put together, and by that time, she was too old for the part as she had written. "She had breasts already, and the part I had written was definitely for a child who was younger than that. So.. I held auditions and auditions, but I never found that quality, what I found in her. I rewrote the script, then, and we had to rethink how to shoot the nudity, for example, because of her breasts. But I think it puts the film into a better perspective, a child that age."

References

External links

* 2009 films Dutch drama films Belgian drama films 2009 drama films 2000s Belgian films {{2000s-Netherlands-film-stub