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Unknown Brood

6.4(5)20161h 25m2

“When I do my suicide for you, I hope you’ll miss me too,” Herman Brood sang in “Rock ‘n’ Roll Junkie” – just one of many announcements of his own death Brood worked into his songs. It’s a subject Brood, who jumped off the roof of the Amsterdam Hilton 15 years ago, often sang about. In Unknown Brood, a whole range of people look back on the rock and roller’s turbulent life, including fellow musicians, his manager, a former girlfriend, photographer Anton Corbijn, Brood’s wife and their daughter. Video footage shot by Brood himself and never seen before is intercut with a rich collection of archive material, including a humorous clip of Brood barking the Dutch national anthem. His sister Beppie Brood stresses her brother’s split personality: on the one hand the shy, vulnerable man wary of other people, and on the other the one who played Herman Brood – an extravagant, hedonistic junkie and rock and roll star.

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Released
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Language
Dutch

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Director

Dennis Alink

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Netherlands, Germany

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Release dates

  • NetherlandsNL

    • Theatrical12IDFA Premiere Amsterdam19 Nov 2016
    • Theatrical121 Dec 2016
    • Physical12DVD28 Feb 2017
    • TV12NPO 327 Dec 2018

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Unknown Brood was released on 19 November 2016.

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