'' Filmpje!'' (, "Little Film!") is a
1995
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Dutch
Dutch commonly refers to:
* Something of, from, or related to the Netherlands
* Dutch people ()
* Dutch language ()
Dutch may also refer to:
Places
* Dutch, West Virginia, a community in the United States
* Pennsylvania Dutch Country
People E ...
comedy film
A comedy film is a category of film which emphasizes humor. These films are designed to make the audience laugh through amusement. Films in this style traditionally have a happy ending (black comedy being an exception). Comedy is one of the ol ...
directed by
Paul Ruven. It stars Dutch TV presenter and comedian
Paul de Leeuw
Paul Henri de Leeuw (born 26 March 1962) is a Dutch television comedian, singer and actor.
De Leeuw gained national fame in the late eighties and early nineties with television shows for broadcasting company VARA. Though satire was only a part ...
as two of his characters, Bob de Rooy and his wife Annie de Rooy, which were both featured in a lot of his TV sketches. Just like De Leeuw's TV shows the film is full of controversial comedy about taboo subjects. It was the most popular Dutch film of the year.
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Plot
Bob de Rooy is an arrogant, egotistical man who divorces his well-meaning, but very naïve wife Annie, because she's unable to provide him the right amount of sex in their married life. After the divorce is settled, Bob goes to the red light district in Amsterdam to catch up what he has been missing all those years. There he starts an affair with a prostitute who turns out to be the daughter of gangster boss Don Gorgonzola. When the criminal boss finds out that his daughter has an affair with Bob, who arrogantly makes fun of him on the phone and hangs up before he does, Bob and his newfound love have to flee to Curaçao. Meanwhile, Annie falls in love three times, first with a notorious criminal who is later shot by one of Gorgonzola's henchmen, then with a man who dies of cancer and later one of Gorgonzola's henchmen who exploits Annie's innocence to let her smuggle drugs to Curaçao. There Annie and Bob meet again...
Cast
*Paul de Leeuw
Paul Henri de Leeuw (born 26 March 1962) is a Dutch television comedian, singer and actor.
De Leeuw gained national fame in the late eighties and early nineties with television shows for broadcasting company VARA. Though satire was only a part ...
... Bob de Rooy / Annie de Rooy
*Rijk de Gooyer
Rijk de Gooyer (17 December 1925 – 2 November 2011) was a Dutch Golden Calf-winning actor, writer, comedian and singer. From the 1950s until the early 1970s, he became well known in The Netherlands as part of a comic duo with John Kraaijkamp ...
... Don Gorgonzola (as Rijk de Gooijer)
*Olga Zuiderhoek
Olga Zuiderhoek (born September 16, 1946 in Assen) is a Dutch actress. She graduated in 1970 from the Amsterdam Theater School. After having been associated with the cooperative association Het Werkteater for many years, she worked for the the ...
... Carmen
* Tom Jansen ... Brie
*Arjan Ederveen
Arjan Ederveen Janssen (born 9 September 1956) is a Dutch actor, comedian, TV scriptwriter and TV director. He participated in the TV series '' Theo en Thea'', '' Kreatief met Kurk'' and ''30 minuten'' and played in the musicals '' Hairspray'' an ...
... Charl Diepenhoef
*Porgy Franssen
Porgy may refer to:
* ''Porgy'' (novel), a 1925 novel by DuBose Heyward
* ''Porgy'' (play), a 1927 play by Dorothy Heyward and DuBose Heyward, based upon his 1925 novel
* Porgy (fish), a common name for fishes in the family Sparidae
* Porgy Ke ...
... Rocky Fort
* Roos Ouwehand ... Marie Louise de Rooy
* Coen van Vlijmen ... Albert de Rooy
* Kees Groenteman ... Marcel de Rooy
*IJf Blokker
IJf Blokker (born 2 September 1930) is a Dutch musician and television actor and presenter. After a professional career as a drummer, he became a well-known television actor in the 1970s playing the character Barend Servet in the Wim T. Schippers-d ...
... Piet Buks
*Wil van der Meer
Wil () is the capital of the ''Wahlkreis'' (constituency) of Wil in the canton of St. Gallen in Switzerland.
Wil is the third largest city in the Canton of St. Gallen, after the city of St. Gallen and Rapperswil-Jona, a twin city that merged i ...
... Gekke Gerrit (as Will van der Meer)
*Peer Mascini
Petrus Johannes Maria "Peer" Mascini (23 March 1941 – 16 May 2019) was a Dutch actor and writer. He is well known for his work in Blind Date (1996) and De eenzame oorlog van Koos Tak (1996). He was a recipient of Golden Calf award.
Career ...
... Joop Rooster
* Willeke Alberti ... Toos Rooster
* Pleuni Touw ... Mevrouw Lozig
*Bram van der Vlugt
Bram van der Vlugt (28 May 1934 – 19 December 2020) was a Dutch actor. He is known for playing the role of Sinterklaas for over two decades. He died on 19 December 2020, at the age of 86, after contracting COVID-19 during the COVID-19 pandemic ...
... Dokter Lozig
References
External links
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Dutch comedy films
Dutch crime comedy films
Dutch satirical films
Films set in the Netherlands
Films shot in the Netherlands
Netherlands in fiction
Films about prostitution in the Netherlands
Mafia films
Films about dysfunctional families
Curaçao in fiction
Films set in Curaçao
Films shot in Curaçao
1995 films
1990s Dutch-language films
1990s crime comedy films
Self-reflexive films
Films based on television series
1995 comedy films
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