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Dief! (1998)

Crime | 86 minutes
3,22 155 votes

Genre: Crime

Duration: 86 minuten

Country: Belgium

Directed by: Mark Punt

Stars: Axel Daeseleire, Damiaan De Schrijver and Tania Kloek

IMDb score: 6,2 (405)

Releasedate: 2 February 1998

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Dief! plot

Frans van Reeth was one of the most notorious, but also the most colorful figures of the Belgian crime world for more than fifteen years. He was never armed. His burglaries and robberies were spectacular and daring, but usually also insufficiently prepared, so that Frans van Reeth spent half his life in penal institutions. Up to five times he managed to escape from prison. His whole life was a cat-and-mouse game with the police and the gendarmerie. Frans van Reeth therefore regularly made the front pages of the newspapers and became a controversial folk hero.

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speedy23

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Frans Van Reeth always called himself a socialist, but one for his own account. He had never felt like working to death on a shipyard or in a factory. A true story, which is more of a tragicomedy than a crime drama. Hopefully not too much is lost for Dutch film fans with the captions, because it really is a gem of a film...

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The Flemish version of Catch me if you can. The story is great, especially when you know that the man really existed. Frans van Reeth played with the law by taking the criminal path without really thinking, but also escaping from the police every time and in between living life to the full and enjoying day to day. Axel Daeseleir certainly fits this role and I am happy that they have opted for dialects in terms of language use. Usually such Flemish films are spoiled by wanting to use generic Dutch. The film is not a tour de force and it lacks great creativity. But it is entertainment and can always be watched with a smile.

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Fisico

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Quite an amusing film with Axel Daeseleire. Perhaps a highly romanticized film by the real Frans Van Reeth. Now, like some kind of Robin Hood, he stole from the rich and then gave it to... himself. He was that opportunistic. His robberies were not really well thought out, but it does speak in favor of him that he was never armed.

Tania Kloek and Axel Daeseleire, that is quite a match, you will see that later in Team Spirit. A film with panache and humor. Nice soundtrack and nice supporting roles such as the prisoner played by Peter Van den Begin. Funny scenes there during chess or the Belgium-Netherlands international match.

I've seen this movie before, but that was a long time ago. The focus is on entertainment, nothing more, nothing less.

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