The Flying Dutchman

Original Title: De vliegende Hollander

128' | 1995 (Completed)

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Director:	Jos Stelling
Producer:	Alain Keytsman
Writer:	Hans Heesen, Jos Stelling

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Late 16th century persecuted protestantism and general dissatisfaction with the Catholic Habsburg rule in the Netherlands lead to large-scale plundering and vandalizing of churches, only harshening the Spanish Inquisition, sparkling the Eighty Years War.

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Late 16th century persecuted protestantism and general dissatisfaction with the Catholic Habsburg rule in the Netherlands lead to large-scale plundering and vandalizing of churches, only harshening the Spanish Inquisition, sparkling the Eighty Years War. Flanders,1568: Italian minstrel Campanelli tells he followed a Dutchman, the robber of a golden chalice, but failed to prevent him being taken by the men of a rigid farmer Netelneck, who has him tied-up inside a huge shit-container. After Campanelli frees him, the gold stays inside, and the Dutchman is killed, but the minstrel turns to offer the paying audience a happier version. Seven years later, he scares the Dutchman's posthumous son into bringing him food and convinces the kid he can fly, like his dad, who is on a grand ship, but fails to drag the gold out and is blinded and chased by Netelneck. Fourteen years later, the minstrel returns and tricks Netelneck into diving after the gold himself so he can drawn the bastard, then sets the 'little Dutchman' on the road to find his father, who proves a mere thief living in a beached shipwreck. Both join a brigand band, but it ends up arrested by the Spaniards and imprisoned under the authority of Netelneck's son, who has him thrown in an oubliette forced to scoop water, but Lotte, his only lover ever, notices something she gave him and believes her son, now she's Netelneck junior's wife, is the little Dutchman's...

Credits

Director
Jos Stelling
Producer
Alain Keytsman
Writer
Hans Heesen, Jos Stelling
Cast
René Groothof, Senne Rouffaer, René Van 't Hof, Jenny Tanghe, Gene Bervoets, Bert André
Editing
August Verschueren
Photography
Goert Giltaij
Art direction
Peter van Laar, André Fonteyne
Costume
Ann Verhoeven
Makeup
Mireille Hoetelmans, Luk Van Cleemput

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Creation details

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

1995
Production status
Completed
Original title
De vliegende Hollander
Original language
Dutch

Technical specs

Running time
128'
Aspect ratio
1.33:1 (4:3)
Available formats
35mm

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The Flying Dutchman

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Credits

Director

Producer

Writer

Cast

Editing

Photography

Art direction

Costume

Makeup

Format

Creation details

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Category

Production share

Genre

Year of production

Production status

Original title

Original language

Technical specs

Running time

Aspect ratio

Available formats