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Daens (1992)

Biography | 138 minutes
3,55 805 votes

Genre: Biography / Drama

Duration: 138 minuten

Country: Belgium / France / Netherlands

Directed by: Stijn Coninx

Stars: Jan Decleir, Antje De Boeck and Michaël Pas

IMDb score: 7,5 (4.479)

Releasedate: 1 October 1992

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Daens plot

Aalst, 1888. After a conflict with Bishop Stillemans, priest Adolf Daens returns to his hometown. He takes up residence with his brother Pieter, publisher of the 'Land Van Aelst'. The textile industry in Aalst is under great pressure from foreign competition. Factory director Borremans fires half of his workers, an approach supported by Charles Woeste, chairman of the Catholic Party. However, the layoffs hit hard. Daens notices this when he ends up in the Scholliers family, where Nette, only 17, has to take care of the bread. Daens denounces the abuses in the factories in an article in 'Het Land Van Aelst', on which a committee must investigate the situation...

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Full Cast & Crew

Actors and actresses

Adolf Daens

Charles Woeste

Nette Scholliers

Jan De Meeter

Bisschop Stillemans

Pieter Daens

Louise Daens

Elizabeth Borremans

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Jawaddedadde

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Pastor Dans.

Still a piece of Flemish film history that I think is (or has been) compulsory reading in secondary schools. I already know that I first saw it there, as a young boy.

And so many years later, this remains an outstanding social drama with an impressive cast and beautiful set design. The story covers almost the entire Flemish emancipation struggle, from universal suffrage over the improvement of the working conditions of the workers, the fight against poverty to the overthrow of the French-speaking bourgeoisie.

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This movie is still current.

Put yourself in the conditions of today's Third World.

After more than 100 years, these situations still occur.

Think of your clothes for example

This film shows it very well, the sheer injustice

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Fisico (moderator films)

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Daens is a monument in the Flemish film world. Jan Decleir is equally so, certainly through his film Mira, but with this Daens he also left his mark for the next generation. What “The Sorrow of Belgium” by Hugo Claus was in the literary world, Daens is in the film world. Just not that big ultimate international award. No Nobel Prize for one, no Oscar for the other. But that doesn't mean they are bad productions, on the contrary.

Daens grabs you by the throat anyway because of so much injustice, poverty and impoverishment in the industrialized provincial town of Aalst at the end of the nineteenth century. The Sossen only just existed and it was mainly the Catholic politicians who held the reins. Daens sketches a hard world to survive, to fight for bread on the table, to deploy every member of the family in the capitalist radar system. Mother why are we alive?

Daens is a film that highlights many facets such as the political struggle between the traditional parties, poverty and child labour. That one scene where a child ends up under the machine and after which a parade takes place, is the symbol of the film. Strong film, even after so many years and revisions. Still one of Flanders' most beautiful. Nice film by Coninx.

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