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De Dijk Is Dicht (1950)

Drama | 100 minutes
3,36 11 votes

Genre: Drama

Duration: 100 minuten

Country: Netherlands

Directed by: Anton Koolhaas

Stars: Kees Brusse, Jan Teulings and Henny Alma

IMDb score: 6,1 (37)

Releasedate: 12 January 1950

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De Dijk Is Dicht plot

The young farmer Bert Verbloeme (Kees Brusse) lost his wife in 1944 during one of the Allied bombing raids on the dikes of Walcheren and with it the will to make something of his life. After the liberation, as the reclamation and reconstruction of the island begins, he regains his energy.

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Dutch film: produced entirely by Dutch people!

Anton Koolhaas was chairman of the production fund for Dutch film in the 1970s. When Verhoeven came up with the script for Spetters in 1978 and Koolhaas received it, he exclaimed "Dirt with a whore in the lead role!", referring to the manipulative, pragmatic femme fatale Fientje.

“While Jesus says in the Bible that prostitutes will enter the Kingdom of God sooner than the rich,” said Verhoeven.

Koolhaas also seems to have said after seeing Keetje Tippel that its makers deserve the death penalty.

Koolhaas's decency is also clearly visible in this film. Stereotypical role patterns, dialogues so old-fashioned that they would sound ambiguous twenty years later: Brusse's mother to her son after she has given him a few sandwiches: "Men should be spoiled."

Or sugary-sweet romance that makes your balls clench: "We actually wanted to send a postcard to the whole world, but buying those clogs, no, we weren't quite sentimental enough for that..."

Still, the film is not that bad or anything, especially thanks to a young, handsome Kees Brusse who, grieving over the death of his wife, radiates something touching, almost in a James Dean way. Although his grieving process is over very quickly and that change in his character (Cheer up boy! Don't grieve and put your shoulders to the wheel! as in "I struggle and I'll come up"}, is very clichéd and even insulting for people who struggle with it their whole lives or are succumbing to it.

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