''De Greep'' ( en, The Grip) is a Dutch silent film from 1909, with a running time of eight minutes which was directed by Leon Boedels.Leon Boedels
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De Greep was produced by ''Filmfabriek F.A. Nöggerath'' and is based on the

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play ''La Griffe'' by Jean Sartène.

Plot

Jean-Marie Hardouin (played by

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) is an old man who once was notorious because of the iron grip he exerted on his family but now he is

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. He whiles away his days in a chair in the house of his son and daughter-in-law. He has to see how his adulterous daughter-in-law plots to murder her two foster children and her husband. Jean-Marie can't intervene and because he can't talk he can't warn his own family. Eventually he gathers all his strengths and strangles her.

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, 4 August 1909 * F. van der Maden, Mobiele filmvertoning in Nederland 1895–1913, Nijmegen (1981), p. 295 * Nijmeegsche Courant, 5 October 1909 * H. de Wit, Film in Utrecht van 1895 tot 1915, Utrecht (1986); Annex: p. 133 * De Kinematograaf, No. 102, 1 January 1915 * De Kinematograaf, No. 105, 22 January 1915 * De Kinematograaf, No. 121, 14 May 1915 *G. Donaldson, Of Joy and Sorrow. A Filmography of Dutch Silent Fiction, Amsterdam (1997), p. 75

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External links

The movie on the site of EYE Film Institute Netherlands

* 1909 films Dutch black-and-white films Dutch silent short films {{Netherlands-silent-film-stub

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