Public Works

Original Title: Publieke werken

98' | 2015 (Completed)

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Director:	Joram Lürsen
Producer:	Dirk Impens
Writer:	Frank Ketelaar

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Set in 1888, lute-maker Vedder and his disgraced pharmacist cousin Anijs try to come up with a scheme of making a future in the US. However, this will have tragic consequences...

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1888: Lute-maker Vedder has to move when his home, opposite the recently completed Central Station in Amsterdam, must make way for the planned Victoria Hotel. His cousin Anijs, a pharmacist in the northern provinces of the Netherlands, has got into a fix after illegal medical practices and is looking for a way out for his wife and a colony of impoverished peat-cutters, whom he promises a future in the US. Vedder and Anijs must come with up a scheme from which they will all fully benefit. This, however, will have tragic consequences.