Young Orlow & Dick Night

Programme

• Pim en de film (1980, 20')

  Pim is asked to act in an advertisement: the fulfilment of a boyhood dream. But when he arrives on set, the whole thing turns out to be much more difficult than he imagined.

• Pim en zijn familie (1980, 20')

  Pim’s parents have been married for 35 years. The whole family has been invited to celebrate. But Pim doesn’t like these compulsory festivities. He dodges his obligations, but this has consequences.

• Pim en zijn hospita' (1979, 18')

  Pim is a first-year student. For the first time he has his own room in the big city. He tries to impress his landlady, and believes that his feelings for her are mutual.

• Pim en zijn vriend' (1980, 20')

  Pim wants a racing bike. This is now his hobby, his whole life. A strange encounter with someone who is kind to him means a friend at last.

• Pim geeft een feest (1980, 20')

  Pim has to house-sit for his grandma. At last, some space for himself. Unfortunately, the guests he invites to his party don’t turn up.

• Adelbert (Dick Maas, 1977, 32')

  Satirical film about an artist who hits rock bottom financially and, with his lover, makes an unsuccessful suicide attempt. This was Dick Maas’ graduation project at the Netherlands Film Academy. With Gees Linnebank, Ansje Beentjes, Mimi Kok, Alex van Warmerdam and Cor van Rijn.

• Rigor mortis (Dick Maas, 1981, 63')

  Dick Maas’ debut film is the tragicomic story of a man who has spent 124 days underground to beat the world record for being 'buried alive'. The typically Dutch scene takes place in the garden of a deserted caféin the polder called The Hunter’s Rest. "I didn’t think he’d take it so literally ", Leen Jongewaard says. And TV reporter Rijk de Gooijer introduces the wannabe record-breaker with the words: "This person is among us."