Alphonse Marie "Fons" Rademakers (5 September 1920 – 22 February 2007) was a Dutch actor, film director, film producer and screenwriter.
Career
His 1960 film ''
Makkers Staakt uw Wild Geraas'' was entered into the
11th Berlin International Film Festival, where it won the
Silver Bear
The Berlin International Film Festival (), usually called the Berlinale (), is an annual film festival held in Berlin, Germany. Founded in 1951 and originally run in June, the festival has been held every February since 1978 and is one of Europ ...
Award.
During a career spanning several decades he directed 11 films, including ''
The Assault'', which won the
Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film
The Academy Award for Best International Feature Film (known as Best Foreign Language Film prior to 2020) is one of the Academy Awards handed out annually by the U.S.-based Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS). It is given to a ...
in 1986,
and ''
The Village on the River'', nominated for the same award in 1959.
Making him both the first Dutch director to be nominated and win this award.
He granted a wide-ranging interview to
Radio Netherlands
Radio Netherlands (RNW; ) was a public radio and television network based in Hilversum, producing and transmitting programmes for international audiences outside the Netherlands from 1947 to 2012.
Its services in Dutch ended on 11 May 2012. Eng ...
in 1987.
"VIP Lounge - Fons Rademakers", Radio Netherlands Archives, August 17, 1987
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He died in 2007 in a Geneva hospital of emphysema, after the life-support machines were switched off at his request.
Filmography
*'' The Village on the River'' (''Dorp aan de rivier'') (1958)
*'' Makkers Staakt uw Wild Geraas'' (1960)
*'' The Knife'' (''Het Mes'') (1961)
*'' Like Two Drops of Water'' (''Als twee druppels water'') (1963)
*'' The Dance of the Heron'' (''De dans van de reiger'') (1966)
*''Mira
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ο Ceti is a binary stellar system, consisting of a vari ...
'' (1971)
*'' Because of the Cats'' (1973)
*''Max Havelaar
''Max Havelaar; or, The Coffee Auctions of the Dutch Trading Company'' () is an 1860 novel by Multatuli (the pen name of Multatuli, Eduard Douwes Dekker), which played a key role in shaping and modifying Dutch Ethical Policy, Dutch colonial poli ...
'' (''Max Havelaar of de koffieveilingen der Nederlandsche handelsmaatschappij'') (1976)
*'' Lifespan'' (1976)
*'' The Judge's Friend'' (''Mijn vriend'') (1979)
*'' Vrijdag'' (1981)
*'' The Assault'' (1986)
*'' The Rose Garden'' (1989)
References
External links
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1920 births
2007 deaths
Dutch male film actors
Dutch male television actors
Dutch film directors
Dutch film producers
Dutch male screenwriters
Golden Calf winners
Directors of Best Foreign Language Film Academy Award winners
Silver Bear for Best Director recipients
Dutch expatriates in Italy
Dutch expatriates in France
People from Roosendaal
Deaths from emphysema
20th-century Dutch screenwriters