Gerard Thoolen

Documentary about the Dutch theatregroup the Werktheater. The aim of the company was to create socially relevant theater by means of cooperative processes and improvisation. They often played their performances on location, such as in hospitals, prisons, healthcare institutions and schools. In this documentary, those involved are interviewed about this remarkable theater group.

A troubled detective befriends a single woman and her daughter with the intention of using them as bait for a serial killer.

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.

A man from the province looks back on his graduation year, some teachers, the parental home and especially his father.

A chimney sweep’s daredevil antics are meant to keep a young woman from jumping off the roof. But does she really want to jump? Or does he maybe? A street sweeper is watching and passes the hat round for our hero. Or is he part of the act too?

Composer Misha Mengelberg collaborates with director Anthony Garner on a commissioned short film to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the death of Mozart.

An exiled magician finds an opportunity for revenge against his enemies muted when his daughter and the son of his chief enemy fall in love in this uniquely structured retelling of the 'The Tempest'.

A lonely man tossed by life and hectored by his landlady finds happiness only with an alley cat.

1976년 남아프리카 공화국. 20세기에도 남아있는 영국령 식민지이며 약 490만의 백인이 4배 규모인 2300만 흑인을 총칼과 공포 정치로 억압하고 있는 곳이다. 벤 뒤 뜨와는 요하네스버그 학교에서 역사를 가르치는 선생님이자 사회에선 동료들에게 존경받는 인물이며 집안에선 자상한 가장이다. 그는 남아프리카 태생 백인사회의 인물로 안정과 행복속에 나날을 보낸다. 적어도 그의 앞에 두개의 죽음이라는 엄청난 사건이 던져지기까지. 어느날 벤의 정원사인 고든의 아들 조나단이 인종차별정책의 철폐를 요구하는 시위도중 실종된다. 고든은 그의 주인인 벤에게 아들을 구해달라고 부탁을 하게되고, 벤은 정원사의 아들의 석방 탄원을 올리지만, 당국은 조나단이 시위도중 사망했다고 통고해 온다. 하지만 고든은 아들이 심문도중 심한 고문에 의해 살해되었다고 확신하며 강경한 자세로 사체를 보게 해 달라고 요구한다.

Alternating comedy and drama this portrait of different families on three floors in an Amsterdam building where the stairs symbolizes the suffering of known urban living alongside each other. Upstairs live two students, including the failed and unemployed singer Karin with Harrie and Wouter down with his demented mother.

Four-part musical about the life of Dutch actress Fien de la Mar, chronicling her earliest days on stage with her father, her glory days as a stage and movie star and the building her own theatre, up until the tragic end of her life.

This film is about the Jewish girl Sara and the ruin of her family during World War II. Her parents have to live in the Jewish ghetto in Amsterdam, but later they are arrested and deported. Sara decides to flee with her brother and his girlfriend to Palestine. Based on the book by Marga Minco.

Otto, a Jewish refugee who managed to escape from Berlin in the early days of WW2, is now the owner of an Amsterdam ice cream parlor. Otto's place soon becomes a microcosm of the city with its German invaders, Dutch collaborators and anti-fascist resistance groups.

The reconstruction of a Dutch political scandal from the 1960s when a PR specialist managed to gain unhealthy influence in government circles. Eventually he became the biggest victim.

데이트를 즐기던 두쌍의 연인이 탄 엘리베이터가 층과 층사이에 멈춰 질식 직전에 구조된다. 고장난 엘리베이터를 고치기 위해 펠릭스(Felix Adelaar: 휴브 스테펠 분)라는 정비공이 고용되지만 엘리베이터는 고장난 것이 아니었다. 한편 같은 건물에 위치한 부동산 소개소에서 아파트를 구한 맹인 노신사가 엘리베이터를 타려고 하는데 그만 문만 열리고 엘리베이터가 도착하지 않아 추락사하고 만다. 마치 악령이 씌인 듯 계속 하여 사고가 발생하는 엘리베이터에 무언가 있다고 생각한 펠릭스는 여기자와 함께 조사를 시작하는데...

Two brothers end up separated for one of them has mental issues. Meanwhile one of the two follows his dream in becoming a magician.

Hes, an uptight and disaffected social worker reaching retirement, discovers a young woman, Anna, in the closet of an acquaintance who has committed suicide. Realizing that she has been kept in the apartment all her life, he moves in and helps her comes to terms with the complexities of the real world.

A husband, half of an entertainment duo, the Nellicos, tells his wife, who is the other half of the duo, that he has another woman. But they cannot discuss this as he tells her only just before they are due to perform in front of a large audience. (BFI)

In 1928 in the northern part of the Netherlands, a man has an affair with the wife of one of his friends (who is in jail at the time). Because she abandons her children to move in with him, the police are sent to arrest her. This leads to a dramatic confrontation.

TV-adaptation of the performance by the Dutch theatre group 'Het Werkteater'. Three ladies of high society invite homeless people, homeless people and junks to spend a pleasant evening with them, in order to promote communication and integration.

An unsuspecting flower farmer visits the hospital to discuss some test results, only to find himself admitted without explanation for an indefinite period of further examination and observation.

"Conditions" - The improvisation-based performance was inspired by psychiatrists such as RD Laing (Family and Madness) and J. Foudraine (Who is of wood). The Werkteater played this performance 'in the den of the lion': in psychiatric institutions for patients and carers. This led to very intensive and adventurous performances in which 'a lot' always happened. Afterwards the discussions sometimes ran high, but even during the performance the audience sometimes mixed themselves in the scenes.

TV-adaptation of the performance by the Dutch theatre group 'het Werkteater'. A realistic fairy tale about old people in the no man's land between life and death, set in a retirement home.

Documentairy about the progressive theatre group 'Het Werkteater' at their home base on Kattengat 10 in Amsterdam.

After her mother -- a prostitute -- is murdered by her father, Sien is raised by her grandparents. Instead of a bourgeois life with grocer's son Gerrit van Buren, she chooses for an adventurous life with toutman Jan Meier. She follows him and becomes a revue artist in an Amsterdam cabaret, until her father comes to see her...

A gang of six wealthy, well-dressed and well-spoken hoodlums break into a married couple's house and rape the wife while forcing the husband to watch. Thus begins a dogged investigation by a determined detective who quickly finds that their cult-like solidarity can be a serious obstacle to breaking them.