Jan Vanderheyden (10 October 1890 – 27 March 1961) was a Belgian film producer and

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known for the

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he made in the 1930s and 1940s. During the German occupation of Belgium between 1940 and 1944, he produced four of the six films made by Belgian companies in a market that was otherwise flooded by imported German films.Winkel & Welch, pp. 80-82 Vanderheyden hoped to benefit from the

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instituted by the Germans, as Belgian cinema had traditionally been dominated by

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and French language films. Vanderheyden made his last film in 1942, after which Belgian feature film production was suspended due to an increasing shortage of film stock. He was married to the German producer/director

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with whom he frequently worked.

Selected filmography

Director * '' De witte'' (1934) * ''Alleen voor U ''(1935) * '' Uilenspiegel leeft nog'' (1935) * '' De wonderdokter'' (1936) * '' Havenmuziek'' (1937) * '' Drie flinke kerels'' (1938) * '' Janssens tegen Peeters'' (1939) * ''Een engel van een man'' (1939) * ''Met de helm geboren'' (1939) * ''Janssens tegen Peeters'' (1940) * ''Wit is troef'' (1940) * ''Janssens en Peeters dikke vrienden'' (1940) * ''Veel geluk Monica'' (1941) * ''

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'' (1942) * '' Antoon, de flierefluiter'' (1942)

References

Bibliography

* Winkel, Roel Vande & Welch, David. ''Cinema and the Swastika: The International Expansion of Third Reich Cinema''. Palgrave MacMillan, 2011.

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* 1890 births 1961 deaths Belgian film directors Belgian film producers Belgian screenwriters Mass media people from Antwerp 20th-century screenwriters {{Belgium-film-director-stub