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''Tirza'' is a 2010 Dutch
drama film In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone. Drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional terms that specify its particular super ...
directed by Rudolf van den Berg and based on the Dutch bestseller of the same name by
Arnon Grunberg Arnon Yasha Yves Grunberg (; born 22 February 1971) is a Dutch writer of novels, essays, and columns, as well as a journalist. He published some of his work under the heteronym Marek van der Jagt. He lives in New York. His work has been transla ...
. The film was selected as the Dutch entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 83rd Academy Awards but it didn't make the final shortlist.


Cast

* Gijs Scholten van Aschat as Jörgen * Sylvia Hoeks as Tirza *
Johanna ter Steege Johanna ter Steege (born 10 May 1961) is a Dutch actress. She won the European Film Award for Best Supporting Actress for her movie debut in '' The Vanishing'' (1988). Among her other films are Robert Altman's ''Vincent & Theo'' (1990), István ...
as Alma *
Abbey Hoes Emily Abigail Ashley Hoes Gauna (born 20 May 1994) is a Dutch film and television actress. She won a Golden Calf for Best Actress at the Netherlands Film Festival and a Shooting Stars Award at the Berlin International Film Festival for her rol ...
as Ibi * Titia Hoogendoorn as Ester *
Nasrdin Dchar Nasrdin Dchar (born 5 November 1978) is a Moroccan-Dutch actor and presenter. Career Dchar has acted in many theatre productions. His first important television appearance was in ''Cut'', a popular youth series of BNN. He is also seen in soa ...
as Choukri * Keitumetse Matlabo as Kaisa


Production

In retrospect,
Abbey Hoes Emily Abigail Ashley Hoes Gauna (born 20 May 1994) is a Dutch film and television actress. She won a Golden Calf for Best Actress at the Netherlands Film Festival and a Shooting Stars Award at the Berlin International Film Festival for her rol ...
thinks she "should not have done" some of the nude scenes she has done in the past. "I've been on mokkels.nl since I was fourteen because of my role in the film Tirza." The actress tells in conversation with a magazine that there are people who think that "it's part of the game" if you are an actress. "But I don't think being on a dirty porn site is part of the job. If I had wanted that, I would have become a porn actress."


See also

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List of submissions to the 83rd Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film This is a list of submissions to the 83rd Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has invited the film industries of various countries to submit their best film for the Academy Award for Bes ...
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List of Dutch submissions for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film A ''list'' is any set of items in a row. List or lists may also refer to: People * List (surname) Organizations * List College, an undergraduate division of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America * SC Germania List, German rugby unio ...


References


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* 2010 films 2010 drama films Dutch drama films 2010s Dutch-language films Films set in Namibia Films directed by Rudolf van den Berg {{Netherlands-film-stub