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Een vlucht regenwulpen

Ate de Jong / NL, 1981 / 92 min.

In this adaptation of Maarten ’t Hart’s bestseller, a shy biologist goes in search of The Woman to avoid great misfortune. Jeroen Krabbé’s first leading role involved him also playing the character’s bolder alter ego.

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In his 1978 novel Een vlucht regenwulpen Maarten ’t Hart describes the yearnings of Maarten, a 34-year-old professor of cellular biology who lives with his ill mother. Maarten is still a virgin, but, at the behest of the incontrovertible will of god (the novel is set in Reformed Protestant circles) he goes in search of a woman assisted by his alter ego (a double role for Krabbé, with a moustache). The otherworldly Maarten has to find a woman inside a week to avoid great misfortune: he will be sent to hell if he remains a bachelor – a plot element that incidentally does not occur in the book.

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Persons under 6 years must be accompanied by an adultThis movie contains scenes of violence

Director

Ate de Jong

Production year

1981

Country

NL

Original title

Een vlucht regenwulpen

Length

92 min.

Language

none

Subtitles

NONE

Format

35mm

Part of

Iconen van de Nederlandse cinema

Iconic film producer Matthijs van Heijningen has turned 80, and we’re celebrating with a selection of the best films he produced from 1975 with his life and business partner Guurtje Buddenberg, including De lift, Flanagan, Een vlucht regenwulpen, Ciske de Rat, Kracht and De bende van Oss.

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campagnebeeld Iconen van de Nederlandse cinema: De films van Matthijs van Heijningen & Guurtje Buddenberg
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