Hans Dagelet Movies
- 2002
Pollo de Pimentel's drama (Oysters van Nam Kee (Oysters at Nam Kee's) is about a teenager who has taken up with a woman and gotten in over his head. Berry (Egbert-Jan Weeber is a high-school dropout who meets up with the alluring Thera (Katja Schuurman). She exposes him to the title food, and engages in exciting sex acts with him. Eventually she leaves him, leading to a tragic ending. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Egbert-Jan Weeber, Katja Schuurman, (more)
- 1991
The prolific Dutch director of experimental films, Pim de la Parra, here has crafted an improvisational satire on the process of making experimental films, and it is particularly aimed at the Dutch avant-garde. Filmed in black and white, the story puts a crew of unpaid actors and actresses together while they attempt to shoot a film in very few days with practically no budget and no script. Oddly, that is exactly the situation they were actually in. While the director's earlier uses of this formula met with some critical success, this one was received with considerably less enthusiasm. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Pim de la Parra, Liz Snoyink, (more)
- 1990
Laurens (Hans Dagelet) believes that the "open" marriage he has with Stephanie (Will van Kralingen) is entirely successful, and is grateful for the opportunity it gives him to bed as many women as possible. The couple decide to celebrate the eighth anniversary of their marriage, and at the party, Stephanie announces that she is leaving Laurens for someone she will not name. Laurens, hurt and embarassed, tries to turn his well-practiced seduction techniques on his wife, with humorous results. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Hans Dagelet
- 1988
Tom Hulce plays a Polish Jew who turns to the Dutch profiteer Theo (Jeroen Krabbe) for help to escape from the Nazis. Theo refuses to help the fugitive because he has no money, but the desperate visitor insists on staying. Theo risks his life by giving the man food and shelter. Hulce's character (who is never referred to as Shadowman) jumps into an Amsterdam canal and swims for his life while the Nazis try to gun him down. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Jeroen Krabbé, Tom Hulce, (more)
- 1988
Now here's something you don't see every day: a skin-diving serial killer. Then again, since this melodrama takes place in Amsterdam, a town with almost as many canals as Venice, why should we be surprised that a murderer would swim from one killing to the next? A detective who isn't particularly fond of water tries to bring the finny fiend to justice. Essentially a B-grade slasher flick, Amsterdamned is distinguished by unexpectedly high production values. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Huub Stapel, Monique Van de Ven, (more)
- 1987
This drama focuses on two case studies by the groundbreaking neurologist and cognitive scientist Alexander R. Luria, whose works gave so much impetus to another doctor-writer whose case stories have also served as a basis for films, Oliver Sacks (Awakenings). One of the doctor's patients is a professional memory expert (a mnemonist), a man whose ever-expanding amounts of remembered information can only be organized through the use of skillfully ordered associative techniques (e.g., red is the color of blood, blood runs through the heart, that redhead I just met has the name "Hart," which sounds like heart). When the neurologist takes on the case of a brain-damaged soldier who has lost the ability to speak, the techniques he used to help the mnemonist make sense of his store of data also help the soldier put together the skills needed to speak intelligibly again. Slow-paced and intellectual in its focus, this film is likeliest to be of interest to those already familiar with neurological issues. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Hans Dagelet, Guusje van Tilborgh, (more)
- 1983
Black humor dominates in this macabre story about a murderously animated elevator and its repairman Felix (Huub Stapel) and Felix's voluntary new assistant Mieke (Willeke van Ammelrooy), a reporter for a tabloid paper. When the elevator decapitates a security guard and tries to suffocate some party-goers, it becomes obvious that it needs more than a 60,000-mile check-up. After Felix narrows down the possibilities to some experiments his company is doing with microchips, he is coincidentally suspended from his job -- indicating that the elevator is not acting alone. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Huub Stapel, Willeke van Ammelrooy, (more)
- 1980
This well-received contemporary drama was based on a novel by Gerald Reve. Hugo Netsers and Hans Dagelet star as, respectively, a middle-aged writer and a restless youth. These two opposites attract, and a gay romance blossoms. Dagelet draws Netsers out of his shell, and the two go on the prowl for new adventures. The film deftly blends fantasy and reality while weaving its way to an intriguing conclusion. The original Dutch title was Lieve Jongens. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Hugo Metsers, Hans Dagelet, (more)
