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Dorp aan de Rivier (1958)

Drama | 92 minutes
3,37 144 votes

Genre: Drama

Duration: 92 minuten

Alternative titles: Doctor in the Village / Village by the River

Country: Netherlands

Directed by: Fons Rademakers

Stars: Max Croiset, Bernard Droog and Mary Dresselhuys

IMDb score: 6,7 (465)

Releasedate: 19 August 1958

Dorp aan de Rivier plot

Village doctor Van Taeke (Max Croiset), a respected and knowledgeable man, has his own ideas about the practice of medicine. During the day-to-day work, many exceptional events cross the path of the bon vivant and rebellious physician. There is the birth of Mrs. Van Erpen, the miller's servant who commits suicide and a macabre murder.

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Bobbejaantje

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The film starts with a few pages from the book of the same name by Antoon Coolen on which it is based, or so it seems to me. The book (which I have not read) was already published in 1934, so it was already an old one at the time the film was produced. Amusingly enough, the suggested excerpt from the book makes a mockery of the 'modernization' of society. In his work from 1934, author Antoon Coolen started from a kind of nostalgia for an idealized past, which is completely in line with the radical and less radical political movements in Europe at that time. The 1958 film - set in an even more modern time - in turn expresses the same nostalgia. If Antoon Coolen and the young Fons Rademakers had already been able to take a look at today's world, they might have fallen steeply backwards. But this is besides the point.

Hugo Claus's screenplay for this film didn't really fascinate me. Fragmented storyline in which I did not feel involved, neither with Max Croiset (who acts well), nor with narrator Bernard Droog who just cycles through the story. Which makes me wonder whether it was a good choice to use this book by Coolen as the basis for the film. Some potentially exciting moments are not used at all - it is indeed not a thriller and is probably intended as a family film? - which also does not provide compensation.

What I think is great is the photography. It's nice how the landscapes are integrated and the indoor photography is also delicious. The composition and lighting in the coffin scene is a pearl, regardless of the nonsense that is said, and there are many more examples. Rademakers and co clearly knew how to use the camera and were fully up to date with modernity. And for that reason I still managed to get a passing grade for this debut film by Rademakers.

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Movsin

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Based on the novel of the same name by Antoon Coolen with screenplay and dialogues by Hugo Claus.

What a sense of peace comes over you when you see this wonderful film.

Enjoy filming with this little masterpiece that takes you through folk tales, village characters and the art of telling it simply and succinctly.

And cinematically it is also quite good, which inevitably leads you to the conclusion that Rademakers has left us a work to be cherished here with this "Village on the River".

Very good performances by Max Croiset and Bernard Droog in particular. And Jan Teulings is also strong in the role of the hypocritical mayor.

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mrklm

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Fons Rademakers' debut film earned him a nomination for an Oscar and a Golden Bear, but is certainly not among his best work. Hugo Claus and Fons Rademakers edited Antoon Coolen's village chronicle about a Brabant village on the Maas based on the new Frisian village doctor Dr. Van Taeke [Max Croiset]. Slow, inevitably episodic and unbalanced, but Croiset is excellent, Eduard van der Enden's camerawork is beautiful and the denouement is strong.

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