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Tijdelijk Gesloten (2020)

Name: Tijdelijk Gesloten
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2023-06-13T20:22:14+02:00
Rating: 3.21

Documentary | 72 minutes

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Genre: Documentary

Duration: 72 minuten

Alternative title: Rob Scholte Museum, Tijdelijk Gesloten

Country: Netherlands

Directed by: Roy Dames

IMDb score: 7,0 (5)

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Tijdelijk Gesloten plot

Rob Scholte (1958) is a well-known Dutch painter, who lost both his legs in a bomb attack in 1994. After wandering in Japan, Tenerife and Antwerp, he settled in Den Helder, where he converted an empty post office into the Rob Scholte Museum. The municipality of Den Helder is pleased with Scholte's arrival, because the artist enhances the cultural prestige of the city. But after years of tolerance, the municipality wants the post office back to build apartments in it. The artist and his family are threatened with eviction. However, Rob Scholte refuses to give up the museum. Filmmaker Roy Dames witnesses the daily tension the artist and his family have to live in and follows him in his struggle to keep his museum open, and to exhibitions he has in other places.