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Harry Kümel
Harry Kümel (born 27 January 1940) is a Belgian film director. His 1971 vampire feature ''Daughters of Darkness'' (''Les lèvres rouges''; Fr, "The Red Lips"), starring Delphine Seyrig became a cult hit in Europe and the United States. He also directed the film version of ''Malpertuis'' (1971), featuring Orson Welles and adapted from the 1943 novel by Jean Ray. He also directed ''Monsieur Hawarden'' (1969) about the cross-dressing Meriora Gillibrand whose two male lovers fought a duel in Vienna. She then killed the survivor and fled to Belgium dressed as a man. She took the name Hawarden from a family related to hers in Lancashire. The film is a fictionalised account; hegravecan still be seen near Malmedy in the German-speaking part of Belgium. He made a cameo appearance in several fiction novels, among others: Nicholas Royle's novel ''Antwerp''. Hubert Lampo's magic-realistic novel ''The Scent of Sandalwood''. From 1969 until the present, teacher of cinema at various f ...
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Antwerp
Antwerp (; nl, Antwerpen ; french: Anvers ; es, Amberes) is the largest city in Belgium by area at and the capital of Antwerp Province in the Flemish Region. With a population of 520,504,Statistics Belgium; ''Loop van de bevolking per gemeente'' (Excel file)
Population of all municipalities in Belgium, . Retrieved 1 November 2017.
it is the most populous municipality in Belgium, and with a metropolitan population of around 1,200,000 people, it is the second-largest metrop ...
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Jean Ray (author)
Jean Ray is the best-known pseudonym among the many used by Raymundus Joannes de Kremer (8 July 1887 – 17 September 1964), a prolific Belgian (Flemish) writer. Although he wrote journalism, stories for young readers in Dutch by the name John Flanders, and scenarios for comic strips and detective stories, he is best known for his tales of the fantastique written in French under the name Jean Ray. Among speakers of English, he is famous for his macabre novel ''Malpertuis'' (1943), which was filmed by Harry Kümel in 1971 (starring Orson Welles). He also used the pseudonyms King Ray, Alix R. Bantam and Sailor John, among others. Biography Ray was born in Ghent, his father being a minor port official, his mother the director of a girls' school. Ray was a fairly successful student but failed to complete his university studies, and from 1910 to 1919 he worked in clerical jobs in the city administration. By the early 1920s he had joined the editorial team of the ''Journal de Gand''. ...
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Belgian Film Directors
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1940 Births
Year 194 ( CXCIV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Septimius and Septimius (or, less frequently, year 947 ''Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 194 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire * Emperor Septimius Severus and Decimus Clodius Septimius Albinus Caesar become Roman Consuls. * Battle of Issus: Septimius Severus marches with his army (12 legions) to Cilicia, and defeats Pescennius Niger, Roman governor of Syria. Pescennius retreats to Antioch, and is executed by Severus' troops. * Septimius Severus besieges Byzantium (194–196); the city walls suffer extensive damage. Asia * Battle of Yan Province: Warlords Cao Cao and Lü Bu fight for control over Yan Province; the battle lasts for over 100 ...
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Eline Vere (film)
''Eline Vere '' is a 1991 Dutch film directed by Harry Kümel, based on the 1889 novel with the same title by Louis Couperus Louis Marie-Anne Couperus (10 June 1863 – 16 July 1923) was a Dutch novelist and poet. His oeuvre contains a wide variety of genres: lyric poetry, psychological and historical novels, novellas, short stories, fairy tales, feuilletons and s .... The film was selected as the Dutch entry for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, Best Foreign Language Film at the 64th Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee.Margaret Herrick Library, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Cast *Marianne Basler ... Eline Vere *Monique van de Ven ... Betsy van Raat *Johan Leysen ... Henk van Raat *Thom Hoffman ... Vincent Vere *Paul Anrieu ... Oom Daniél *Aurore Clément ... Tante Elise *Bernard Kruysen ... Theo Fabrice *Michael York ... Lawrence St. Clare *Mary Dresselhuys ... Mevrouw van Raat *Koen De Bouw ... Paul van Raat *Miryan ...
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De Komst Van Joachim Stiller (film)
'' The Arrival of Joachim Stiller '' (Dutch: ''De Komst van Joachim Stiller'') is a 1976 Belgian film directed by Harry Kümel Harry Kümel (born 27 January 1940) is a Belgian film director. His 1971 vampire feature ''Daughters of Darkness'' (''Les lèvres rouges''; Fr, "The Red Lips"), starring Delphine Seyrig became a cult hit in Europe and the United States. He als ... based on the book of the same name. It originally aired as three 50-minute episodes in Flanders. The Dutch broadcast it as one part, cutting out 45 minutes. Harry Kümel made a cinematic version of 110 minutes. The Flemish DVD release edits the three original TV episodes into one film with a runtime of 153 minutes at the request of the director, and includes Dutch, French and English subtitles. Cast External links * Belgian drama films 1976 films 1970s Dutch-language films Films directed by Harry Kümel Films shot in Antwerp Films shot in Belgium Films based on Belgian novels 1976 drama films ...
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Hubert Lampo
Hubert Leon Lampo ( Antwerp, 1 September 1920 – Essen, 12 July 2006) was a Flemish writer, one of the founders of magic realism in Flanders. His most famous book is '' De komst van Joachim Stiller'' ("The coming of Joachim Stiller", 1960), in which a mysterious person, named Joachim Stiller, appears as a redeemer, under circumstances reminiscent of the death of Jesus. Other themes that occur in Lampo's work are the myths of Orpheus, Atlantis and the Holy Grail. Bibliography (English) * Hubert Lampo: ''Arthur and the Grail''. Photogr. by Pieter Paul Koster. London, Sidgwick & Jackson, 1988. * Hubert Lampo: ''The coming of Joachim Stiller''. Transl. by Marga Emlyn-Jones. New York, Twayne Publishers, 1974. * Hubert Lampo: 'The contemporary novel in Dutch'. In: ''The contemporary novel in Belgium''. Brussels, 1970. No ISBN See also * Flemish literature Flemish literature is literature from Flanders, historically a region comprising parts of present-day Belgium, France and the ...
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Nicholas Royle
Nicholas Royle (born 20 March 1963 in Manchester) is an English novelist, editor, publisher, literary reviewer and creative writing lecturer. Literary career Author Royle has written seven novels: ''Counterparts'', ''Saxophone Dreams'', ''The Matter of the Heart'', ''The Director’s Cut'', ''Antwerp'', ''Regicide'' and ''First Novel''. He also claims to have written more than 100 short stories, which have appeared in a variety of anthologies and magazines, including '' Bad Idea'', with his short story ''Confessions of a Serial Coat Snatcher'' appearing in the 2008 ''Bad Idea Anthology''. He has written two short-story collections: ''Mortality'' and ''Ornithology''. Awards Royle has won a British Fantasy Award three times: Best Anthology in 1992 and 1993 and Best Short Story in 1993. He has been nominated for Best Short Story three further times. ''The Matter of the Heart'' won the Bad Sex in Fiction Award in 1997. Editor As an editor, Royle is best known for having edited '' T ...
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German-speaking Community Of Belgium
The German-speaking Community (german: links=no, Deutschsprachige Gemeinschaft, or DG; french: links=no, Communauté germanophone; nl, links=no, Duitstalige Gemeenschap), since 2017 also known as East Belgium (german: links=no, Ostbelgien), is one of the three federal communities of Belgium. Covering an area of within the Liège Province in Wallonia, it includes nine of the eleven municipalities of Eupen-Malmedy. Traditionally speakers of Low Dietsch, Ripuarian, and Moselle Franconian varieties, the local population numbers 77,949about 7.0% of Liège Province and about 0.7% of the national total. Bordering the Netherlands, Germany and Luxembourg, the area has its own parliament and government at Eupen. The German-speaking Community of Belgium is composed of the German-speaking parts of the lands that were annexed in 1920 from Germany. In addition, in contemporary Belgium there are also some other areas where German is or has been spoken (the difference line between German, D ...
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Malmedy
Malmedy (; german: Malmünd, ; wa, Måmdiy) is a city and municipality of Wallonia located in the province of Liège, Belgium. On January 1, 2018, Malmedy had a total population of 12,654. The total area is 99.96 km2 which gives a population density of 127 inhabitants per km2. The municipality consists of the following districts: Bellevaux-Ligneuville, Bévercé (including the hamlets of Baugnez and Xhoffraix), and Malmedy. Under the complex administrative structures of Belgium, which has separate structures for territorial administration and for language community rights, Malmedy is part of Wallonia and of the French Community of Belgium. But since it has a German speaking minority, it is one of Belgium's municipalities with language facilities (or "municipalities with facilities"). Malmedy and Waimes are the two municipalities in the French-speaking part of Wallonia with facilities for German speakers. The population of Malmedy is approximately 95% French speakers and ...
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Monsieur Hawarden
''Monsieur Hawarden'' is a 1968 Belgian-Dutch drama film directed by Harry Kümel. The film was selected as the Dutch entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 42nd Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee. The film is an adaptation of Filip De Pillecyn's short story ''Monsieur Hawarden'' (1935) and Henri Pierre Faffin's novel ''Monsieur Hawarden'' (1932), both of which were inspired by an actual nineteenth century diary. Plot Meriora Gillibrand disguises herself as a man ('Monsieur Hawarden') to avoid prosecution for murdering her lover fifteen years ago. She is the last living member of a wealthy Vienna family, and has spent the years after the murder traveling Europe with Victorine, her female servant. Her travels provide her with an anonymous cloak that allows her freedom of movement but little peace of mind. Nearing middle age, the guilt and weariness of an empty life has her contemplating suicide as the only way out of her dilemma. Cast * Ellen Vogel as Mo ...
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