Het compromis
Philo Bregstein / NL, 1968 / 84 min.
First fiction feature by documentary maker, writer and essayist Philo Bregstein, who in the sixties was among the first cohort of students at the Film Academy. Amsterdam, 1968: amidst all the love, peace & happiness, a young married couple submit the bourgeois institution of marriage to rigorous scrutiny.
Amsterdam, 1968. In the wake of the Summer of Love in San Francisco, Amsterdam too succumbs to the spirit of love, peace & happiness; bourgeois standards and values are put to the test.
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Director
Philo Bregstein
Production year
1968
Country
NL
Original title
Het compromis
Length
84 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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