Hans Heijnen

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De Gert en Hermien Story
Director
The Gert & Hermien Story shows the rise and fall of one of the most popular singing duos in Dutch history: Gert & Hermien Timmerman. Their career has seen great heights and deep valleys. Their personal lives, which were marked by scandals, were always widely covered in the tabloids. Daughter Sandra, along with some other intimates and confidants of Gert and Hermien, is our guide in the unlikely story of her narcissistic, manipulative father and driven mother.
Soccer Is War
Director
Achilles '29 from Groesbeek has been a top club in amateur football for years. In recent years they even surpass De Treffers, their bigger brother and competitor in the construction worker's village. When the club can promote to professional football via a pilot project, it takes on the challenge. It becomes a huge risk for the people who love the club.
Lee Towers, The Voice of Rotterdam
Director
Moving portrait of one of Rotterdam’s musical heroes: singing crane driver Lee Towers. After a lengthy period of absence, he is back on stage for one last gala concert in Ahoy. Behind the glitter and glamour, real life goes on, and that is above all hard work.
Johnny Hoes: Och Was Ik Maar...
Director
Rex Gildo, De val van een schlagerkoning
Director
In his 40-year career Rex Gildo had dozens of hits and always sold millions of records. But with the decline of the Schlager genre he started to be forgotten. In this documentary director Hans Heijnen digs for the truth behind the glamour.
Uncle Frank
Writer
Tragicomic documentary where director Hans Heijnen searches for the Dutch emigrant in foreign parts. The film focuses on a Southern-Limburg clan in California and shows how this small group stays loyal to the Dutch-Limburg traditions and habits. In the spirit of the long-gone 50s the emigrants visit the church every Sunday and arrange a weekly night of cards. Many things they are attached to do not exist in America, and tragically also not anymore in the country they left behind.
Uncle Frank
Director
Tragicomic documentary where director Hans Heijnen searches for the Dutch emigrant in foreign parts. The film focuses on a Southern-Limburg clan in California and shows how this small group stays loyal to the Dutch-Limburg traditions and habits. In the spirit of the long-gone 50s the emigrants visit the church every Sunday and arrange a weekly night of cards. Many things they are attached to do not exist in America, and tragically also not anymore in the country they left behind.
Intensive Care
Screenplay
A deranged doctor gets in to a car accident and burns beyond recognition. Years later he awakes from his coma and stalks a young male nurse and his girlfriend, killing everyone along the way.
De Vlieg
Director
A man is annoyed by a fly he just can't seem to kill.
The Last Limburger in LA
Director
On 7 February the Superbowl match in San Francisco kicks off, and there is a celebration across America. The kids of Frans and Tiny and their offspring are all sitting in front of the television. Uncle Frank stays home. He stares at his computer where via webcam he can see the market square in Sittard, watching if there isn’t too much rain during Carnival.
Guardians of Bemelen
Director
Elderly brothers Pierre and Willie Pittie still live together in their parental home in Bemelen, and are members of almost every local club. The small village of Bemelen resides five kilometres away from Maastricht and gradually changes under pressure of city officials and the rising tourist industry. A loving portrait of a small Limburg community against the backdrop of big, societal changes.