Edwin de Vries Movies
- 2008
As adapted from the novel of the same title by celebrated Dutch belletrist Jan Wolkers (Turkish Delight), the tense and seamy erotic thriller Summer Heat observes the difficulties that befall a photographer when he enters a torrid affair with a young girl on the isle of Texel - a liaison that pulls him into some extremely dangerous and choppy waters. ~ Nathan Southern, Rovi
- 2002
Three travelers caught in a dense fog share the stories and secrets of their lives in director Ate de Jong's low-key drama Fogbound. Stranded on a mountainside after their car breaks down, Bob (Luke Perry, and married couple Leo (Bob Daniels) and Ann (Orla Brady) bare their souls as they discuss every intimate detail of their lives. Revealing everything from Leo and Anne's troubled marriage to Bob's revelation regarding his trist with an undersexed overweight woman to an odd secret from Bob and Leo's previous business trip to the Far East, it soon becomes clear that the old friends have alot to learn about one another, and it's all suddenly coming into the open as never before. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
- Starring:
- Luke Perry, Ben Daniels, (more)
Actor Jeroen Krabbe made his directorial debut with this Dutch-Belgian-U.S. drama examining anti-Semitic attitudes in 1972 Antwerp. Free-spirited 20-year-old student Chaja (Laura Fraser) has a long-haired revolutionary lover and sometimes visits her parents (Maximilian Schell, Marianne Sagebrecht), both concentration camp survivors. Evading eviction from her apartment, Chaja finds work as a nanny with the Kalmans, an Orthodox Hassidic family. Initially rebelling against the rigid traditions, she eventually comes to terms with their way of life as she teaches their four-year-old to follow his father's doctrines. Adapted from Carl Friedman's novel The Shovel and the Loom, this film was shown at the 1998 Berlin Film Festival. ~ Bhob Stewart, Rovi
- Starring:
- Laura Fraser, Isabella Rossellini, (more)
- 1989
From the book by Yvonne Keuls, this Dutch teen drama looks at life in teen rehabilitation center and refuge. Some of the kids have been raped, others are runaways, some are thieves. They all have problems, and all are problems for the system, and for the dedicated staff who try to help them. The only teens who are not welcome at the center are junkies and the insane, who have other refuges. ~ Clarke Fountain, Rovi
- Starring:
- Jasperina de Jong, Dora van der Groen, (more)
- 1989
The daughter of a Jewish couple who survived the Holocaust is soon to marry a doctor, which is an occasion for celebrating. Thus, the girl's parents have decided to have a prenuptial feast at their country estate. Among the invited guests is a woman who fostered their child during the Nazi era. Instead of being grateful, the girl's mother is mostly jealous. Despite the fact that this is a celebration, memories of the past threaten to overpower the proceedings. This affectionately told story is based on the Dutch stage play Leedvermaak by Judith Herzberg). ~ Clarke Fountain, Rovi
- Starring:
- Pierre Bokma
- 1987
A very strange advertisement appeared in the personals section of The Village Voice in 1985. It offered to trade lives for one whole month. That is, each of the parties involved would inhabit the other's life completely. This movie is based on the screenwriter's idea of what might have transpired had that trade taken place in the Netherlands. In this amusing drama, Liesbeth is a masterful mother and wife who tends to her two boys and teen-aged girl with great affection and competence, while deferring to her psychiatrist husband for all major decisions. She fears she may be missing something, and at the urging of her husband, she places a "life-swapping" ad. All goes well until her husband learns that she has made her decision about whose life to swap with without consulting him. At first, the psychiatrist and his children are distressed to be cared for by a zany single woman writer who wears bright makeup and clothes and doesn't coddle anybody, but eventually the ice breaks, and they develop some affection for one another. ~ Clarke Fountain, Rovi
- Starring:
- Renée Soutendijk, Monique Van de Ven, (more)
- 1986
Based on true events but at the same time a fictional account, this compelling, fast-paced wartime drama of two heroic resistance fighters in Holland deserves attention. Peter van Dijk (Jeroen Krabbe) is an accomplished artist who is thrown into the leadership of the resistance movement out of a series of tragic events. He leads military raids against the Germans and is at the top of their "Most Wanted" list. David Blumberg (Edwin de Vries) hits upon an imaginative and daring plot to save as many Jews as he can from the Nazi death camps. He invents a fake General von Spiegel who sends him lists of Jews who should be sent to Switzerland, provided they can come up with enough jewels or whatever to front the cost. The Gestapo buys this ploy, and hundreds of Jews are saved as a result (a true historical fact). Blumberg and van Dijk's stories become intertwined and expanded, filling in context and entertaining subsidiary characters as they go along. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, Rovi
- Starring:
- Jeroen Krabbé, Edwin de Vries, (more)
- 1986
During the Nazi invasion of Holland, Jewish pacifist Edwin De Vries and resistance leader Jeroen Krabbe react in different ways to the fall of Amsterdam. De Vries tries his best to peacefully coexist with the occupation forces, in hopes of helping his fellow Jews escape. Krabbe prefers the direct approach of guerrilla warfare, killing as many Nazis as possible. Though given fictionalized names, the central characters of Shadow of Victory are based on two real-life figures, theologian Friedrich Weinreb and freedom fighter Gerrit van der Veen. This film was originally distributed in the Netherlands as In de Schaduw van de Overwinning. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
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