Afdelingshoofd
Paul and Anna live an apparently happy and successful life. But when their son inexplicably falls ill, the facade of a seemingly happy family life crumbles completely, like brittle porcelain that can no longer be glued.
La película cuenta la historia de amor entre Hans (Barry Atsma) y Margje (Noortje Herlaar) - novios desde la escuela. Hans crece en un ambiente religioso muy estricto, con un padre brutal. Huye de su casa muy joven y deja los estudios de horticultura. Después de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, se inicia en un vivero en un pueblo de la provincia de Gelderland. Al principio, él y Margje disfrutan de una vida familiar feliz y amor sin límites. También tienen problemas, sin embargo, mantienen el negocio en marcha. Un día, conoce a Jozef Mieras (Marcel Hensema), quien le habla de Dios. Después Hans oye la voz de Dios en una visión, se convierte y cambia de fe - una fe va a determinar el curso de su vida, y la de su familia. Las divisiones entre los diferentes miembros de la familia se vuelven más y más grandes hasta que Hans cae totalmente en las garras de una secta religiosa. Sin embargo, el amor incondicional de Margje sobrevive, a pesar de todo.
Willem
Bart, a young film student slowly loses his mind while studying at the film academy. Based on a true story.
The actor Lucas Bron performs the play King Lear by William Shakespeare for the pupils of his son Patja. After the show, Patja has already got home when he is warned that his father's house is on fire. He rushes to the fateful spot. The fire brigade has already arrived and is unable to say whether his father is still in the house. Patja desperately runs into the burning house and finds his father unconscious on the kitchen floor. But Lucas' spirit is in the theatre. In a magic train of thought, just before he dies, Lucas directs and acts, assisted by his son, high points and low from his eventful life in the theatre, but also outside. Theatre and reality become intertwined. It slowly becomes clear that Lucas still has something to tell his son.
