Alfred Schaaf

Películas

El Conductor (Bumperkleef)
Production Design
Hans tiene tanta seguridad en sí mismo que raya en la prepotencia. Un día, estando en la carretera con su familia, discute con otro conductor. El hombre, resentido por los malos modos de Hans, empieza a seguirlo, dispuesto a llegar a extremos inimaginables para aplicar un correctivo moral al protagonista.
Riphagen, el carnicero holandés
Production Design
Amsterdam, Países Bajos, 1944, durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Andries Riphagen, un poderoso jefe de los bajos fondos, ha hecho su fortuna poniendo sus muchos talentos criminales al servicio de los ocupantes nazis. Pero la larga batalla está a punto de terminar y los luchadores por la libertad, que han sido perseguidos y asesinados durante años, están abandonando sus escondites para cazar sin piedad a los que han colaborado con los asesinos.
The Fury
Production Design
Albert has always looked up to his aunt Tiny: this beautiful woman from Brabant can make any man’s heart skip a beat. Through Albert’s eyes Tiny’s life seems quite exciting. But why is she so furious at everyone and everything? It takes him half a lifetime to discover that his beloved aunt’s existence is a lot more complex than he had ever thought.
Blood, Sweat and Tears
Production Design
Blood, Sweat and Tears is a story about the life of Andre Hazes, a Dutch popular singer. It shows three crucial phases in the life of Hazes: his youth (in the 1960s), his breakthrough (1980s) and the last year of his life (early 2000s).
Sunny Side Up
Production Design
To celebrate their anniversary, a young urban couple spends a weekend on a rural island, only to find its locals don't take too kindly to strangers.
Gift from the Heart
Production Design
Brothers Tom and Niek are running the family's costume rental store. Former soap star Tom doesn't take his job and his relationships very seriously. Niek on the other hand, is a workaholic, which recently led to a separation from his wife Karin. When the brothers are preparing for the busy holiday season, attractive Julia walks through the door with an offer they can't refuse: participating in a bold ad campaign that will rock Dutch holiday traditions to their core. Soon enough, Tom and Niek find themselves in a whirlwind of family issues, national cultural matters and love, after which neither of them will ever be the same.
The Dinner
Production Design
Two brothers and their wives have dinner in a fancy restaurant to discuss their teenage children's misdeeds. An excoriating assessment of Europe’s contemporary social ills.
The Marathon
Production Design
Four out-of-shape car mechanics decide to participate in the Rotterdam marathon. If they reach the finish in time, they will be able to pay off their debt — if they don't, they will lose their garage.
Black Out
Production Design
After ruthless gangsters wrongfully accuse him of stealing from them, a retired criminal has 24 hours to creep back into his past life and retrieve a bag of coke before his fiancée is killed.
Manslaughter
Production Design
Doodslag (Dutch for "Manslaughter") is the story of Max, a paramedic who is repeatedly hindered in performing his duties by loutish behaviour. As his ambulance hurries towards a complicated childbirth, some youths prevent Max from reaching the distressed woman in labour. Spurred on by the emergency and the incendiary words of a TV pundit, he reaches a boiling point and forcefully hits one of the men obstructing his ambulance. Max's strike has far-reaching, unintended consequences.
All the Time in the World
Production Design
Holanda /// Cuenta la vida de Maarten y su hermana Molly, y los amores y desamores que se encontrarán en el camino.
Dennis P.
Production Design
Comedy inspired by the true story of Dennis P, who became Holland's biggest diamond thief, when he walked away with the entire 20 million euros stock of an international diamond trader, using a microwave oven as a swagbag.
The Horror Bus
Production Design
Onnoval tiene once años y no se lleva muy bien con sus compañeros de clase. Cree que cuando se enfade, se convertirá en un hombre lobo. Acosado en el colegio, Onnoval escribe historias de fantasmas en las que se venga de los otros niños. Pero cuando el diabólico Ferluci se hace con sus historias, las cosas comienzan a hacerse muy reales. Si Onnoval no reescribe su historia pronto, todo irá horriblemente mal durante la excursión al Parque del Horror.
11:59
Production Design
Ominous short film that confronts the spectator with prejudices about young Moroccans and Turks. Eighteen-year-old Moroccan Khalid leaves the parental home in emotional distress. He breaks into a school to act upon a carefully considered decision.
Morlang
Production Design
Inspired by true events, a chilling psychological drama. A couple's secret pact takes an unexpected, sinister turn.
Leak
Art Direction
Based on a book about an infamous real scandal in the Dutch crime scene, the film aims at exposing the horrors caused by corruption on both sides of the law. A rookie policeman is coerced into obtaining secret information from a childhood friend turned gangster. The childhood friend turns informant. But his revelations are hardly the most important "leaks" in the story. In fact, the new relationship between old friends goes all wrong, and the young policeman becomes increasingly involved in a deadly web of lies, crimes, treason, and revenge, all seemingly out of control.
The Shining Armour
Art Direction
After losing sight of each other for 25 years, the paths of three childhood friends cross paths. It concerns successful conductor Victor Slingeland, successful writer Sander Vastenhout and general practitioner Bert Duprez. Slingeland enjoys a reputation as a womanizer. This intrigues Vastenhout who, as is often the case with authors, is without inspiration. Vastenhout sees the unraveling of Slingeland's complex personality as possible new material for a novel. With the help of Dr. Duprez, Vastenhout tries to find out about Slingeland's secret by imitating his behavior and thus challenging him.
Ivoren wachters
Art Direction
The 17-year old Philip gets in a conflict with his teacher. When he visits his teacher's home to apologize, Philip meets Lida, Frits' girlfriend.
Ivoren wachters
Cinematography
The 17-year old Philip gets in a conflict with his teacher. When he visits his teacher's home to apologize, Philip meets Lida, Frits' girlfriend.
Carácter
Production Design
Katadreuffe es un joven que atraviesa por dificultades económicas en la Rotterdam de los años 20. Vive bajo la tiranía de su padre, el dominante alguacil Dreverhaven, un hombre que todavía no ha aceptado que la madre del chico lo abandonara, y que vuelca toda su rabia y fustración sobre su hijo. (FILMAFFINITY)
De Flat
Art Direction
Roos Hartman is a young doctor who lives with her son in a large apartment complex. When a fellow tenant is brutally murdered, the police and Hartman's friends suspect her mysterious neighbour, Eric Coenen. As she becomes romantically involved with Coenen, she doubts he would commit such a crime, but soon she begins to investigate the case further and discovers some startling facts relating to his involvement..
Los norteños
Art Direction
Con la llegada de unos misioneros al barrio de Los Norteños, Tomas, un joven soñador, da rienda suelta a sus fantasías africanas.