Paranoia
Adriaan Ditvoorst / NL, 1967 / 101 min.
Film by former Film Academy student Adriaan Ditvoorst based on W.F. Hermans' novella, about a young man traumatised by war. Alongside the likes of Pim de la Parra, Wim Verstappen and Frans Weisz, Ditvoorst was one of a new generation of makers who shook up the Dutch film scene. Introduced by Rommy Albers in Dutch.
Film adaptation of W.F. Hermans' novella Paranoia (1953). Arnold Clever imagines he is a war criminal being sought internationally, whose description has been circulated in the newspapers – delusions that lead to his downfall.
Paranoia was the first feature-length fiction film by Adriaan Ditvoorst, whose short film debut Ik kom wat later naar Madra (1965) attracted international acclaim. Reviewers noted that Ditvoorst had successfully captured the dark tone of Hermans' novella through sparse use of dialogue, powerful images and a foreboding atmosphere.
Preceded by: Ik kom wat later naar Madra (Adriaan Ditvoorst, 21').
Introduced by Eye curator Rommy Albers in Dutch.
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Director
Adriaan Ditvoorst
Production year
1967
Country
NL
Original title
Paranoia
Length
101 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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