Een ochtend van zes weken
Nikolai van der Heyde / NL, 1966 / 80 min.
Nouvelle vague inspired debut film from Nikolai van der Heyde who, during the 1960s was one of the first cohort of students at Amsterdam’s film school who were also referred to as the ‘Dutch New Wave’. A racing car driver and a model have a doomed, six-week affair.
Racing driver Jimmy meets the Parisian photo model Annette at the Zandvoort Circuit. In the best tradition of the New Wave film, the two lovers are unable to cement their relationship. Jimmy not only loses the woman he loves, but also his self-confidence. Disillusioned, he is forced to give up his career as a racing driver.
Director Nikokai van der Heyde was a student at the Film Academy at the same time as Pim de la Parra, Wim Verstappen and Gied Jaspers, fellow editors of film magazineSkoop. Van der Heyde’s feature film debut was praised by virtually all reviewers. He was lauded as an ‘original filmmaker' capable of delivering a serious exploration of the relationship between a man and a woman.
Film journalist Jan Blokker praised Van der Heyde as one of the filmmakers who would 'shape the future of Dutch filmmaking’. The rising talent would later be reviled for productions like De dwaze lotgevallen van Sherlock Jones and Nitwits.
Introduced by Rommy Albers, Eye's curator of Dutch cinema.
Preceded by a screening of: 11:50 uit Zürich (Nikolai van der Heyde, 1969, 22'), De kegelbaan (Nikolai van der Heyde, 1963, 15').
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Director
Nikolai van der Heyde
Production year
1966
Country
NL
Original title
Een ochtend van zes weken
Length
80 min.
Language
none
Subtitles
NONE
Format
DCP
Part of
Dutch New Wave
They were young and wanted to counter what they saw as the staid, middle-class Dutch cinema of the fifties. Adriaan Ditvoorst, Pim de la Parra, Frans Weisz, Wim Verstappen, René Daalder and Nikolai van der Heyde were captivated by the free, unembellished Italian neorealist style and the French nouvelle vague; they wanted to make films about life itself, with true-to-life characters, like those of Roberto Rossellini, Vittorio De Sica, François Truffaut and Jean-Luc Godard.
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