Peter Tuinman Movies
- 1993
If Angie (Annemarie Rottgering) has been in trouble with the law, it's no big deal to her, since everyone she knows has been in similar straits at one time or another. She has just gotten out of a juvenile offenders home, and is trying to settle in with her mother and her mother's new boyfriend, but when he tries to rape her, she heads for the home of her older brother Alex (Daniel Boissevain). He has been earning his living by stealing cars. While there, Angie makes friends with a waiter (Hidde Schols) who has some serious markers out with the mob for his gambling. Angie, her brother and her new boyfriend commit a robbery and then must go on the run from both the police and the mob. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Annemarie Rottgering, Daniel Boissevain, (more)
- 1987
This social drama concerns the residents of an Amsterdam tenement apartment. The characters come from all walks of life and share a common bond in hopes for a better life. Included are a female student who lives with her brother, a single blonde mother with two dark-skinned daughters, and a shady trader who wheels and deals to make a modest income. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Marijke Veugelers, Gerard Thoolen, (more)
- 1987
This mystery is based on the real-life murder of a hooker who was strangled to death in the red-light district of The Hague in 1959. The 32-year-old victim seems to have had three different personalities. Dolly was the cheap whore who would turn dozens of tricks a day for a dollar a pop. Sylvia was the elegant and wealthy woman who enjoyed attending fancy parties and concerts. Kitty was the divorcee who provided companionship for wealthy businessmen. Hilde van Mieghem plays all three women of mystery. When the police find her body, they discover she was the wealthy owner of eight houses who had made shrewd investments and whose obvious wealth was not consistent with her occupation as a woman of ill repute. The murderer, much like the life of the victim, remains an unsolved mystery. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Hilde Van Mieghem, Peter Tuinman, (more)
- 1985
Quick-paced and sobering, this docudrama focuses on a tragedy that occurred in the 1890s in northern Holland. Those were desperate times, and a harsh winter did nothing to alleviate starvation and the consequent looting of foodstuffs. Farmers -- who were better off than the rest of their compatriots -- in particular were the target of looters, so when three masked men broke into the home of one such farmer, it was not exactly an unexpected occurrence. Two men were wounded by gunfire, and in a bogus trial, three brothers were convicted of the crime even though it was clear they were far from the scene at that time. A scorned lover of one of the brothers was only too happy to lie and testify against them. Feelings ran so high that even when the schoolmaster proved they could not have committed the crime, and after new evidence established the guilt of the real perpetrators, the legal system refused to reconsider the case against the brothers. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
- 1984
In this ostensible combination of a psychological drama and film noir, Pavel Mosz (Onno Molenkamp) has survived a KGB attempt at killing him off, after they frame him for a murder he did not commit. It seems Pavel is an emigre from Prague, a dissident the KGB would rather eliminate than tolerate. But after the failed murder attempt, Pavel suffers a case of amnesia -- and this time the KGB decides to provide him with a fabricated past to their own advantage and sets about to convince him to commit an assassination. Unfortunately, the script does not quite measure up to the good work in photography, musical score, and acting that do distinguish this first feature film by Jules van de Velde. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Onno Molenkamp, Guusje van Tilborgh, (more)
- 1984
In this well-executed political thriller, some covert operations are going on that accidentally involve a Dutch trucker who realizes that an identity switch has led to murder. Loe Wolff (Peter Tuinman), a divorced father whose ex-family lives in New York, drives a truck in a dead-end job and sees no immediate relief to his dull life. When he gambles away some money that belongs to his boss, he tries to sell one of the trucks so he can hop a plane to New York -- and is caught by the very boss he wants to escape. Instead of condemning him, the boss asks if Loe would trade his passport for that of another man, and if so, then his transgression will be overlooked. It seems a Hungarian has to be smuggled out of his country, and Loe's passport would do the trick. The trucker agrees, but later discovers that his truck has been demolished in an accident and its driver (with Loe's passport) was burnt beyond recognition. Instead of dropping the subject, Loe starts to investigate and along the way, meets Anna (Monique Van De Ven), an attractive woman bored with her life. One narrow escape follows another, challenging Loe's resolve to continue investigating. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Peter Tuinman, Monique Van de Ven, (more)
- 1981
- PG
Made for theatrical release by a Dutch TV production firm, this stars Renee Soutendijk in the title role. The Girl is a Dutch wartime resistance leader, who is killed before the film proper gets under way. Through the reminiscences of her best friend, we are given every detail of the Girl's life, loves and dreams (she was a sheltered college student at the outbreak of the War). We also learn what inspired the Girl to become a sang froid assassin of Nazi informers. Director Ben Verbong collaborated on the screenplay with Peter de Vos, author of the factual book (Theun de Vries) upon which the film was based. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Renée Soutendijk, Peter Tuinman, (more)
Spetters further elaborates on the themes of sexual obsession previously probed in director Paul Verhoeven's Turkish Delight (1973). Hans Van Tongeren, Toon Agterberg and Maarten Spanjer play, respectively, Reen, Eve and Hans, a closely-knit group of teenage motorcycle lovers who idolize local cycling champion Witkamp (played by Rutger Hauer, the star of Delight). Unfortunately, the adolescents' attempts to rebel take a dark and brutal turn when Van Tongeren is permanently injured in a road accident and Agterberg is gang raped by a group of homosexuals. While the other two young men lust after Fientje (Renee Soutendjik), a promiscuous hashhouse waitress, Agterberg responds to the rape by coming out and taking Fientje's gay brother as a lover. Verhoeven is artistically and sexually graphic in juxtaposing "cycle love" with the friends' carnal interrelations. The title of Spetters is an indigenous triple-entendre -- it refers to the Dutch vernacular for "grease spatterings" (both the oily renderings left behind by the motorcycles commandeered by the film's central characters and the grease slung by Soutendjik), is a slang term for male ejaculate, and was frequently used in the seventies and eighties to refer to people who are sexually appealing ("That girl is a spetter.")
~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Hans Van Tongeren, Renée Soutendijk, (more)
