Het gangstermeisje
Frans Weisz / NL, 1966 / 117 min.
Lauded debut by Frans Weisz, who in the sixties was one of the first students to study at the Film Academy (the ‘Dutch New Wave’). Het gangstermeisje went on to become a cult film, bursting with energy, and raised feverish expectations for the future. Remco Campert wrote the screenplay, as well as the novel of the same title.
'Illusion is a Gangster Girl' is the title of successful writer Wessel Franken’s latest novel. He’s got into a crisis and fled to the French Rivièra to write a film adaptation of the book for a director friend, at the invitation of the studios in Rome.
Introduced by Eye curator Rommy Albers or film historian Peter Verstraten. Preceded by: Een zondag op het eiland van de Grande Jatte (Frans Weisz, 1965, 20').
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Director
Frans Weisz
Production year
1966
Country
NL
Original title
Het gangstermeisje
Length
117 min.
Language
Dutch
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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