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Late 16th century, persecuted protestantism and general dissatisfaction with the Catholic Habsburg rule in the Netherlands lead to large-scale plundering and vandalizing of churches, only harshening the Spanish Inquisition, sparkling the Eighty Years War. Flanders, 1568: Italian minstrel Campanelli tells he followed a Dutchman, the robber of a golden chalice, but failed to prevent him being taken -after banging a country-girl- by the men of a rigid farmer Netelneck, who has him tied-up inside a huge shit-container. After Campanelli frees him, the gold stays inside, and the Dutchman is killed, but the minstrel turns to offer the paying audience a happier version. Seven years later, he scares the Dutchman’s posthumous son into bringing him food and convinces the kid he can fly, like his dad, who is on a grand ship, but fails to drag the gold out and is blinded and chased by Netelneck. Fourteen years later, the minstrel returns and tricks Netelneck into diving after the gold himself so he can drawn the bastard, then sets the ‘little Dutchman’ on the road to find his father, who proves a mere thief living in a beached shipwreck. Both join a brigand band, but it ends up arrested by the Spaniards and imprisoned under the authority of Netelneck’s son, who has him thrown in an oubliette forced to scoop water, but Lotte, his only lover ever, notices something she gave him and believes her son, now she’s Netelneck junior’s wife, is the little Dutchman’s…

De.Vliegende.Hollander.1995.DVDRip.x264-KORSAR.mkv

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Container:	Matroska
Runtime:	2h 2mn
Size:	2.34 GiB
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https://nitro.download/view/CC02A1C0C042B6E/De.Vliegende.Hollander.1995.DVDRip.x264-KORSAR.mkv

Language(s):Dutch, Italian, French
Subtitles:English

The post Jos Stelling – De vliegende Hollander AKA The Flying Dutchman (1995) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

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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
Size: 1.04 GiB
Codec: x264
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Aspect ratio: 4:3
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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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