Flanagan
Adriaan Ditvoorst / NL, 1975 / 105 min.
Baroque thriller in which bank robber Paul Flanagan tries to escape his aristocratic milieu of birth. Idiosyncratic director Adriaan Ditvoorst adapted Tim Krabbé’s crime novel in his own unique way.
Paul Flanagan is released after eight years in a Belgian gaol. His attempt to discover how the bank job went down and what happened to the money when he was the only one to go down for the crime turns into a quest for revenge against the co-conspirators in his family. The leads were played by Guido de Moor, Eric Schneider and Anne-Wil Blankers, the script was adapted from Tim Krabbé’s 1970 crime novel 'Flanagan of de dood van het beest'.
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Director
Adriaan Ditvoorst
Production year
1975
Country
NL
Original title
Flanagan
Length
105 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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