Jacques Commandeur

Mrs. Boon is taken to a nursing home. She can no longer live by herself and her war memories of the Japanese POW camp increasingly determine her life; she is clearly suffering from a concentration-camp syndrome. The young and largely immigrant nursing home staff does not really see what is the matter or know much about the history Mrs. Boon lives in, which elicits some unadulterated racist statements from her. Things grow worse when the new resident Mrs. Cohen arrives, a Jew who survived Auschwitz. And they are not the only ones in the home with a 'war past'.

When ex-colleague Peter de Beer is killed, detective De Cock is facing the ultimate challenge. Peter’s daughter Michaelle, a witness of the murder, is in shock and cannot help De Cock. But, does the killer also know this? Out of precaution De Cock takes the little crown witness under his wings. To his regrets he concludes that his past pursues him. The trail is leading to a couple of old-India travelers. These old but very tough men already prevented him to solve a murder case years ago. Also this time they try whatever is in their power to keep the murder covered up.

A Portuguese imigrant in Holland dies in an accident and is buried in Amsterdam. But his soul will not rest in peace until his body is carried back to Portugal.

История о том, как обычная деревенька в голландской глуши превратилась в настоящий сумасшедший дом, где каждый сходит с ума по-своему. Абсурдистская деревушка, невелика — в ней всего одна улица, но зато какие колоритные персонажи ее населяют! Страсти там кипят нешуточные, и это не может не приводить к различным смешным ситуациям. В курсе всех проблем местного населения — любопытный почтальон, который не может отказать себе в удовольствии почитать чужие письма.

Eight newspaper-columns by Dutch writer Simon Carmiggelt were turned into a film in honor of his 70st birthday.

Жизни Эрика Лансхофа и пяти его ближайших друзей идут разными путями, когда немецкая армия вторгается в Нидерланды в 1940 году: борьба и сопротивление, страх и покорность, сотрудничество и государственная измена.