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Minimal miniature about a rehearsal of a play text by an actress and a directing actor.

The actress is amazing. An actress and an actor are rehearsing parts of the play Three Travellers Watch Sunrise by Wallace Stevens (1879-1955). The dialogues of the three travellers (Chinese) and the girl (Anna) are spoken by the actress as a monologue. The actor listens and sometimes gives the actress directions.

Dichtweefsel.1999.Frans.van.de.Staak.DVDRip.AC3.x264.mkv

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Runtime: 	19 min 40 s
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https://nitro.download/view/61168D66555AD01/Dichtweefsel_(Frans_van_de_Staak,_1999).kor.srt

Language(s):Dutch
Subtitles:English (hardcoded), English, Korean

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Film of play about the original and witty eighteenth-century writer and academic Lichtenberg.

The film is based on the play Lichtenberg, Scenes on the Threshold of the Modern Age by Cyrille Offermans. While the protagonist Lichtenberg has several things in common with George Christoph Lichtenberg (1742-1799) an experimental physicist and writer of the famous Sudelbücher as well as many no less infamous letters – no attempt has been made at accuracy. Several facts from the life of the historic figure have been incorporated into the character, but the latter remains the brain-child of the writer Offermans. From time to time Lichtenberg quotes writers he could not know, strictly speaking: 19th- and 20th-century authors. These are formulations of ideas emanating from his own work in a natural way.
Dave is a young English scholar who is studying physics and philosophy under Lichtenberg. He is also his assistant. Mrs von Lukács is of an undefinable age and spontaneous. Much about her remains uncertain, for instance whether she is the ‘Sophie’ with whom Lichtenberg corresponds. ‘Sophie’ may only exist ‘phantasmagorically’ for Lichtenberg. Because while Lichtenberg practices exact science, he is no stranger to the tendency towards the ‘phantasmagorical’.Ugly and hunchbacked as he is, Lichtenberg can easily identify himself with the victim, the little animal, the underdog. He is still on guard to avoid becoming the victim of his passionate attitude towards his surroundings. (IFFR 1994)

Kladboekscènes (Frans van de Staak, 1994).mkv

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https://nitro.download/view/AEB395442CD1A19/Kladboekscènes_(Frans_van_de_Staak,_1994).en_v4.srt

Language(s):Dutch
Subtitles:English

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Every scene of the film comprises a dialogue between a man and a woman. The dialogues are fragmentary, in other words, the dialogue in one scene does not tie in with that of the next. In addition there is no development in the relationship between the actor and the actress towards a happy or unhappy ending. The dialogues are not only of substantial interest; it is above all material for the actors. The film balances on the boundary between portraying an intimate relationship between a woman and a man and the intimacy in the acting between the actor and actress. When an actor or actress hardly has any words in a scene, he or she portrays loneliness; when he/she has a monologue, then the attention is focused on speaking the text, on (the reflection about) being an actor.

Schijnsel.1996.Frans.van.de.Staak.DVDRip.AC3.x264.mkv

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Runtime: 	1 h 18 min
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https://nitro.download/view/E29C215EB7A8483/Schijnsel_(Frans_van_de_Staak,_1996).eng.srt

Language(s):Dutch
Subtitles:English (hardcoded), English

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The central character in Rooksporen is a woman who finds herself facing an interrogator. Around these interrogation scenes are scenes in which 26 witnesses (from A to Z) are introduced: first in their houses and then in a space adjacent to the interrogation room. The questioner has an ambiguous identity and function: he directs his questions at the woman and then turns away only listening and watching as a sounding-board, to the witnesses. And the witnesses also have an elusive identity. Who or what they are remains unclear, they exist thanks to the sensuality and/or obscurity of their language. It is also far from clear what the woman is accused of. Most witnesses eventually think she is guilty, but what of remains the question. The only thing which is not in doubt is that she is an eccentric. Whenever it looks as if she can be tied down, she gets off as each witness tries to involve her. Among the many characters are, as well as friends of the film-maker such as film-maker/poet Rein Bloem, some of the best and best-known actors from the Dutch theatre circuit and film world such as Joop Admiraal, Sacha Bulthuis, Thom Hoffman, Johan Leysen and Titus Muizelaar. The film Rooksporen is based on the play De vrouw die een rookspoor achterliet (The woman who left behind a trace of smoke) by Lidy van Marissing which she was commissioned to write for the Institute for Theatre Investigation of Jan Kassies. Lidy van Marissing and Frans van de Staak previously cooperated on the scenarios for the films Er gaat een eindeloze stoet mensen door mij heen (1981) and Op uw akkertje (1982).

Rooksporen.1992.Frans.van.de.Staak.DVDRip.AC3.x264.mkv 1.60 Gb

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Runtime: 1 h 40 min
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https://nitro.download/view/400BA8622081644/Rooksporen.1992.eng.v.2.srt

Language(s):Dutch
Subtitles:English

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A man performs infectious playlets for his surroundings.

A court-jester without a king. The protagonist in the film is an actor (René van het Hof) who is acting his life. He is a nuisance, but only for those who have had enough of his play acting or who are ashamed to be around this clown. His wife breaks up with him because she just can’t tolerate the man any more and he seems to accept that in an apparently matter-of-fact way. He leaves the city for a cottage in the countryside. He soon has a new audience. The woman next door and her daughter are curious to make his acquaintance and are at once enthusiastic about the ingenious simplicity of the shows by this nuisance who is not yet a nuisance to them, but a welcome change in there all-too-ordinary life. The man plays with old-fashioned household objects such as metal buckets and checked teacloths, of which he seems to have an endless supply. The mother and daughter become so fascinated by this kind of inventive portrayal of everyday actions and thoughts that they also want to try their hand at acting. Then it becomes apparent that the nuisance has done his subversive jesting. The daughter finds a way in acting to free herself from the obvious dominance of her mother. Van de Staak’s minimal style is very effective in showing the dry and comic performances. The result may be the most accessible and infectious film ever made by Van de Staak. (GjZ)

Lastpak.2001.Frans.van.de.Staak.DVDRip.AC3.x264.mkv 1.04GB
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Runtime: 1 h 12 min
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https://nitro.download/view/2126A6582D9A233/Lastpak.2001.Frans.van.de.Staak.DVDRip.AC3.x264.mkv

Language(s):Dutch
Subtitles:English (hardcoded)

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Two couples, four characters portrayed by eight actors, based on texts, some poems by Gerrit Kouwenaar. The film follows four persons (each played by two different actors alternating in the roles) as they rush about the streets of Amsterdam, each of them extremely busy doing something. One highlight of the film is the reading of several of the poems of celebrated poet Gerrit Kouwenaar. Despite its severely experimental style and deliberate storylessness, this film was sufficiently inventive and rhythmically interesting to receive a warm reception from some critics. [Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide]

1.10GB | 1 h 14 min | 768×576 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/E9DCFB96E450A0C/Ongedaan_gedaan__Frans_van_de_Staak_1989_.mkv

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