My Father's Garden

Original Title: Knielen op een bed violen

120' | 2016 (Completed)

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Director:	Ben Sombogaart
Producer:	Jacqueline de Goeij
Writer:	Hugo Heinen

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The story of childhood lovers Hans and Margje and their attempts to create a horticultural business against all the odds...

synopsis

My Father's Garden tells the story of Hans and Margje, the love of Hans' life whom he met when they were in primary school. Having grown up in the 1920s with an austere unforgiving religious father, Hans still bears the scars of severe physical mistreatment on his body. Hans runs away from home and studies horticulture in Boskoop and now, in 1949, has set up his own nursery business in a small village in the province of Gelderland. Margje is pregnant with their second child. Their firstborn, Ruben, is eight and interested in growing plants, like his father. Hans and Margje enjoy a good marriage, but there are bigger worries. The plants don't always sell well and their customers' attitude to paying their bills is atrocious. One afternoon, Hans is burning plants he can't sell when a strange man dressed in black appears from behind the dancing flames: Jozef Mieras. Mieras talks to Hans about God.

Credits

Director
Ben Sombogaart
Producer
Jacqueline de Goeij
Writer
Hugo Heinen
Cast
Marcel Hensema, Barry Atsma
Photography
Piotr Kukla
Art direction
Kurt Loyens
Costume
Linda Bogers
Makeup
Cindi van Looveren
Music
Dirk Brosse

Format

Creation details

Type
Film
Category
Fiction
Production share
Minority Flemish co-production
Belgium
Genre
Year of production

2016
Production status
Completed
Original title
Knielen op een bed violen

Technical specs

Running time
120'
Available in
2D
Sound format
5.1 (+ sub)
Colour
Colour

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Contact

Zilvermeer Productions

Kievitstraat 42
2400 Mol
Belgium

T 014 314 343

www.zilvermeerproductions.com

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NL Film & TV B.V.

Supported by

Flanders Audiovisual Fund (VAF), Screen Flanders, NFF, Launchworks, Creative Europe, September Films

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Mollywood

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My Father's Garden

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Credits

Director

Producer

Writer

Cast

Photography

Art direction

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Makeup

Music

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Genre

Year of production

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