Renaat Veremans

Movies

Waar het groeide
Music
Documentary on writer Ernest Claes.
The Theft of Hop-Marianneke
A group of Antwerp students steal a doll from a museum just for fun. But then they get arrested ... .
Met den helm geboren
Music
Meldodrama/folk comedy about a lower class guy who falls in love with the daughter of the lord of the castle ... .
La gloire du régiment
Music
Performing military service, Karel Maes decides to goes over the wall with a group of friends to participate in a cycling race. Karel, Strop and Gust are given a lift by Hans Drogelever, a Dutch soccer supporter on his way to Brussels. A young woman, whose car has broken down, joins them. It is a double triumph for Karel since not only does he win the race but he gets the girl as well.
Alleen voor U
Music
A musical comedy about a rich girl Jenny who falls in love with a a poor but beautiful singing hairdresser's assistant.
Uilenspiegel Still Lives
Music
A local brass band rehearses for a music competition in Bruges. They are confident that a new march by a young music teacher will get them the first prize. Their chance of winning seems to get an awful lot smaller when a a fight breaks out between the chairman and the music teacher -- urging the latter to sell the march to another band.
De Witte
Sound
The first movie version, from the age of black & white, of Flemish (heimat-)author Ernest Claes' classical novel, titled after the nickname (Dutch 'the White', referring to a blond male) of the main character: a smart but naughty farmhand's son whose eternal mischief, pranks and disobedience drive his elders (especially teachers, family and father's grumpy employer, a rich farmer) and classmates to despair in a time when a boy's punishment was still inevitable, swift and often severe.