Waar Het Groeide (1956)
Genre: Documentary / Drama
Duration: 65 minuten
Country:
Belgium
Directed by: Wim Telders
Stars: Guido Daans, Ernest Claes and René Verbeeck
IMDb score:
7,7 (6)
Releasedate: 1 January 1956
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Bobbejaantje
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- 2306 messages
- 2094 votes
Nice documentary in which one goes in search of the roots of Ernest Claes. It is not a dry round of interviews, but one wants to make optimal use of the image as a medium to convey the information. Only in the intro and outro do we see the then seventy-one-year-old Ernest Claes walking around with a freshly starched suit, stuffed pipe and intellectual glasses - next to his wife Stephanie Vetter, who also writes but lives in the shadows. The main part is filled in by Guide Daans who acts a few passages from the life of the young Claes, with the commentary of Ernest Claes. We see him hanging around in the fields and meadows around Zichem and Averbode, as well as the abbey of Averbode, until he makes the transition to the college of Herentals in his teens. What struck me most about his youth is the central place that the Catholic religion occupies in society at that time.
This documentary dates from 1956, looks and sounds outdated with at times sentimental and what we today call swollen language ('Herentals with its good and honorable people') and then also deals with a period that also goes back 60 years to the life in rural Flanders at the end of the 19th century. With this documentary you make 2 hefty time jumps in one fell swoop. As background music they continuously use great classics such as Felix Mendelssohn and Edvard Grieg.
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Movsin
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- 8286 messages
- 8442 votes
Especially nice when Ernst Claes himself speaks and tells extensively about his youth: his young years in the land of Zichem, his many dreams of becoming this or that later, pastor Munte, his mischief in and around the abbey van Averbode, his dealings with the fathers, but also his "preferably being alone", his college years in Herentals with the classical advice (then) "See that you know your French well", Wannes Raps and finally his love for Conscience and... Flanders.
"They are meadows like swaying seas..."
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